Child Aid | United States

Supporting Teachers to Meet the Challenge of Pandemic-Era Education in Rural Guatemala

Expand Child Aid’s work to increase the literacy levels and critical thinking skills of rural primary school students, in the face of new challenges wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic 

AWARD YEAR
2021
FUNDING AREA
Education
PROJECT LOCATION
Guatemala
AMOUNT AWARDED
$200,000
PROJECT DURATION
24 months
Child Aid’s goal during the pandemic has been to maintain and adapt its long-standing literacy program to improve primary school education through teacher training and the provision of books. Child Aid will train approximately 1,500 rural teachers in literacy instruction, who in turn will teach 30,000 students each year. In the two-year project (using funds and materials donated from other sources), Child Aid will provide more than 60,000 books to schools in the program. Additionally, the project will support the continuation and expansion of Child Aid’s successful radio programming in Kaqchikel and Spanish.
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