
Moved by a mission: helping to educate underserved Maya children in Guatemala
A first-hand look at how a nonprofit is helping to educate underserved Maya children in Guatemala By Mary Korbulic Last February, just...


Mask-making initiative raises thousands for impoverished Maya
Mary Jane Henley is an educator and lawyer who dedicated her career to working with children and adults with intellectual disabilities...


COVID-19 threatens education for Maya Jaguar students
The COVID-19 virus emerged in Guatemala in early March and almost immediately curtailed our efforts to offer a quality education to our...


Summer update from Guatemala: Parent’s Day pride
Greetings from Guatemala! I am writing this blog on a warm summer morning at Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala’s Maya Jaguar Educational...


Breaking barriers: educating indigenous children in Guatemala
How do you recruit people to work in the wilderness? That question was one of the first that occurred to me after arriving at...


Paying it forward in Guatemala
While browsing in a jade shop in Antigua in 2003, Fran Lenski, picked up a flyer with a photograph of an impoverished Mayan girl on the...


Sharing a mission of hope for children in Guatemala
I learned about Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala through a friend and was pleased to find that one of the organization’s top priorities...


Woman Shares Global Travels: On a path to help others
Adopt-a-Village founder and president Frances Dixon is featured in the Grants Pass Daily Courier on Saturday, April 9, 2016.