El Calvario—a shining example of CoEd’s Spark Program—uses puppets to boost classroom creativity and communication, showcasing the importance of having fun while learning! Sacatepéquez, July 2023. Cooperative for Education’s (CoEd’s) Spark Program is far from your...
Jeydi, an 8th grader with a bright future, is determined to become a pediatrician and own her own business someday. Thanks to CoEd’s Rise Youth Development Program, she is one step closer to achieving her dreams! Meet Jeydi, an ambitious 8th grader from Santa...
If you sponsor a student in the Rise Youth Development Program or you’ve been supporting CoEd for a while, you know that a Rise scholarship provides so much more than an academic scholarship—because students are facing much more than economic barriers. On top of...
Here at CoEd, we often get questions about how our programs operate in Guatemala. “Do you hire teachers or send volunteers to teach in Guatemala?”, “Do you start your own schools?”, “How on earth does a non-profit in Cincinnati, Ohio work with so many...
A disheartening 90% of kids in rural Guatemala who are living in poverty never graduate from high school. This means that schools in rural Guatemala are essentially dropout factories continuing the cycle of illiteracy and limited opportunities. [1] According to USAID,...
