What We Have Done
Adopt-a-Village has expanded educational horizons over the past 15 years in some 20 villages. Nine primary schools have been constructed, with all schools furnished and supplied with textbooks and school materials.

Thirteen primary and middle schools have been provided with libraries. Manual typewriters have been donated (as there is no electricity in the region for more modern equipment) to four middle schools serving area students from 20 villages.

What We Are Doing Today

Mayan Center for Education and Development
The Mayan Center, a one-of-a-kind training facility, is designed to provide education for local youth so they may put into practice positive and long-term changes that will benefit their villages with essential services. The school’s philosophy of “service to community” will underscore their studies to ensure that students will be well equipped to become the future leaders in the region.

The first phase of this visionary center has commenced with practice in professional and vocational subjects, taught by local and international educators and experts. Students who have completed the courses have received official diplomas from the Ministry of Education.

 

Scholarship Program
Scholarships will be earned by students who demonstrate leadership potential and high academic ability.

Once scholarship funding has been secured, the second phase of education will offer full-time residence. Mayan history and culture, linguistics, governmental affairs regional environmental issues, vocational subjects, animal husbandry, and agriculture, will be taught.

As a scholarship condition, students will serve their communities through an internship program after completing their three years at the Center. The purpose of the internship is to ensure that an entire village can benefit as well as the student from the education provided. The ultimate goal is that the training will be used in their communities to create improvements in education, health, and food production. learn more
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Additional Current Needs to Complete The Center
Funds are needed to furnish a library with textbooks and reference books, supply a rainwater water collection system and solar power system, and build a school kitchen and teachers’ quarters.

Books Across Borders
Thousands of Mayan children who live, work, and play in the remote northern mountains of Guatemala have never known the joy of reading. Students in this region learn as did those centuries ago in now-developed countries with teachers laboriously writing out long lessons that the students tediously copy into their notebooks. Textbooks are not available. Reading books do not exist. Learning is a struggle.
Adopt-a-Village offers an opportunity to share our love of books with the Mayan children – to bring the same joy into their lives that we have experienced.

Our Books Across Borders program will light up the lives of Mayan children by bringing much needed books to the Guatemalan children we care about.

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