Believe in us!! Educate the Girls!! $50 pays tuition and supplies for a full school year. Our families are very poor and cannot pay for the tuition and school supplies. Parents and girls met with the Education Committee to ask if they could help us go to school. We want to study. We want to learn new skills. A plan was made for Girl Gardens Grow Scholars to raise money to pay for tuition and provide food for us and our families.
Maya Ixil families do not have the money to pay for tuition for their girls to attend school. $50 pays for tuition and supplies for a full school year.The deep poverty and high malnutrition rates in the Ixil Maya region of Guatemala results in large numbers of migrant youth who try to cross the Mexico/US border in search of work to help their families. Girls are especially vulnerable to kidnapping, rape and sex trafficking. The alternative for many poor young girls is to become a child bride
Believe in us!! Educate the Girls!! Our families are very poor and cannot pay for the tuition and school supplies. Parents and girls met with the Education Committee to ask if they could help us go to school. We want to study. We want to learn new skills. A plan was made for Girl Gardens Grow Scholars to raise money to pay for tuition and provide food for us and our families.Together we can change our stories to one of hope, improved every day life and prosperity.
It's hard and fearful to step into the unknown and be the first. Our parents did not have the opportunity to go to school and learn to read and write. Our brothers and sisters and grandparents are hungry. The Girl Gardens Grow Scholars project will open opportunity for us to go to school, to learn how to raise nutritious vegetables and sell them in the market. We will help the nutrition for our families. Our work in the Girl Gardens will help pay for our scholarships.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
