Ingrid Tobar Xico: Surpassing Statistics
One out of every four adults in Guatemala cannot read, and the average education level is a mere 4.1 years—the second lowest in all of Latin America. It is no coincidence that 75.6% of rural Guatemalans live below the country’s poverty line, earning less than $4 per...
Guatemala Field Report: Mario Yac Discusses the Textbook Program
Mario Yac, one of the Textbook Program's fearless leaders, shares some valuable insight regarding one of the schools that entered the program this year. We visited Maria del Carmen on the February Snapshot tour, and the best word to describe the school would be......
TimeHop in Guatemala
Have you all heard about the TimeHop app? It shows you photos and updates from this exact day in past years based on your social media history. It's pretty addicting, to say the least, and it got us thinking, "What was CoEd doing five, ten, and yes, even twenty years...
Healing in Guatemala: One Adoptee’s story of return
Brent doesn't know his real name. "I don't know anything about me," he said. "I don't exactly know where I was born, what time I was born, what date, I don't know my real name." After spending the first years of life in a Guatemalan orphanage, Brent only remembered...
Diego Set Cuc: Friendship Through Generosity
The enormous toothy grin he wears from ear to ear gives him away—Diego Set Cuc is thrilled. Today Cooperative for Education and the Guatemala Literacy Project is delivering all-new textbooks to Chumanzana Cooperative School in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, where Diego...