Educate and Empower Maya Youth in Rural Guatemala

by Asociacion Q'eqchi' Xch'ool Ixim
Educate and Empower Maya Youth in Rural Guatemala
Educate and Empower Maya Youth in Rural Guatemala
Educate and Empower Maya Youth in Rural Guatemala
Educate and Empower Maya Youth in Rural Guatemala
Educate and Empower Maya Youth in Rural Guatemala
Educate and Empower Maya Youth in Rural Guatemala
Educate and Empower Maya Youth in Rural Guatemala
Educate and Empower Maya Youth in Rural Guatemala
Educate and Empower Maya Youth in Rural Guatemala
Educate and Empower Maya Youth in Rural Guatemala

Project Report | Mar 10, 2025
Giving Tuesday Progress Report

By Ava Berinstein, PhD | Director of Development

Computer Lab
Computer Lab

Thank you for supporting the Q’eqchi’ Association Xch’ool Ixim (Heart of Corn) and our campaign to support the Computer Lab and to provide computer technology classes to our secondary students at the “Instituto Maya Comunitario K’amolb’e” (IMaCK) in Nimlah’akok, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.

On our very first Giving Tuesday online appeal for our secondary school Computer Lab:

  • We received 26 donations, all from first-time-donors!
  • We received 30 refurbished laptops as a gift-in-kind donation from Chaptops

While our students lack electricity in their homes and are from the most impoverished families in the area, they have an opportunity to learn how to use a computer and gain digital literacy, typing, and accounting skills.

  • Only 5% of students complete high school in rural Alta Verapaz. We plan to break that cycle with interventions aimed at retention.

Your support of this campaign is helping these students gain valuable vocational skills, providing incentives to graduate. Together, we are providing access to education and pathways for entrepreneurship. We are developing future community leaders who can shape their own futures and break the cycle of irregular migration.

On behalf of Xch’ool Ixim, thank you with all of our heart,

Ava

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Asociacion Q'eqchi' Xch'ool Ixim

Location: Coban, Alta Verapaz - Guatemala
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Project Leader:
Ava Berinstein
Coban , Alta Verapaz Guatemala
$4,147 raised of $25,000 goal
 
34 donations
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