How to Keep the Most Common New Year’s Resolutions
¡Feliz Año Nuevo! Did you make a New Year's resolution this year? Or do you skip the resolutions because you've realized that the price of a year-long gym membership is a lot less appealing when you stop using it in March (womp womp)? We have been called eternal...
Friday Photo Fiesta #13: Adventures in Transportation
Transportation can be an adventure in itself when we have volunteers with us on a Project Tour. In a decade and a half of bringing volunteers to Guatemala we've seen our staff and volunteers rally to face it all! Have you ever faced a transportation adventure when...
Where is Guatemala?
We often get the question "Where is Guatemala?" when we first start talking to someone unfamiliar with CoEd's programs. Of course the simple answer is the geographical location—directly south of Mexico in Central America. But if you allow us to be sentimental, mushy...
Fernando Augusto Gonzalez: Learning to read, reaching for the stars.
Fernando Augusto Gonzalez thinks about his parents all of the time. He wonders where they are; he imagines what they might be doing in that particular moment. Maybe, just maybe, they’re thinking about him, too. Fernando lives with his grandparents in the impoverished,...
Rockin’ the Bow Tie for #GivingTuesday 2013
Why do you rock a CoEd Bow Tie on #GivingTuesday? We asked and here's what you had to say about wearing the CoEd Bow Tie. Why do you support education in Guatemala this #GivingTuesday?