Two extraordinary events occur when you give an Adopt-a-Village scholarship. First, you change the course of one child’s life. And then, you change the course of a community.
Our Mayan Center for Training and Education benefits worthy and impoverished students to improve their lives. Additionally, through students’ community service, it benefits entire villages. A scholarship is the key that opens doors to employment, professions, or university enrollment for a student. But more—it is the key that empowers parents to transform their children’s debilitating hunger to good health. By teaching our unique sustainable gardening methods, families are being helped to stem the chronic malnutrition rampant in their communities.
Guatemala has the 4th worst level of chronic child malnutrition in the world. Lack of food impedes children from gaining a normal height and from growing strong and disease-resistant bodies; worst of all, it destines them to suffer irreversible brain damage.
Our training center is one of only three in Guatemala that offers accredited courses in sustainable organic vegetable-growing. With a demonstration mini-farm fully operational and a nutritional health center under construction, we are now sending cadres of teachers and students to train families in surrounding villages.
Please become part of this life-giving force that will stop the chronic malnutrition and its deadly consequences for Mayan children. Give the gift of education and help turn the tide for an impoverished and hungry people. Your scholarship will provide the opportunity for one student to help train hundreds of his neighbors. It will empower Mayan families to become self-sustaining in food production. It will insure that parents can raise healthy children—children with strong bodies and strong minds—a new generation that can build a better future for their people.
