A generous CoEd supporter gave Lesly Patzan the chance of a lifetime–to stay in school and pursue her dreams. We introduced her last year, but now have a beautiful one minute video in which Lesly describes how CoEd’s Scholarship & Youth Development...
Layers of dust coat the cracked concrete floor of Chiquival Cooperative School’s dilapidated gymnasium. A makeshift stage at the front of the room is strewn with streamers and balloons. Students, teachers, and visitors dance together under the modest aluminum roof,...
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,...
The second-grade classroom at Pachalí Primary School is humid. A fly buzzes from desk to desk, circling in wide, lazy arcs in an attempt to distract the students’ attention from the front of the room. But teacher Regina Cabjón is reading—and the students are too...
