By Pueblo a Pueblo | Pueblo a Pueblo
The Guatemalan school year is over. It's an exciting time at Pueblo a Pueblo! We celebrated alongside three beneficiary students at Panabaj Primary School. Andrea, Magdalena and Jose sat next to each other among their classmates and, with a handshake from the director, received their diplomas. This is a feat worth celebrating, as they became part of the 14 percent of youth in Department Solola that complete their primary education.*
We’re always ecstatic when our beneficiary students succeed. In rural Guatemala, there seem to be more obstacles than opportunities for children to get an education.
“The main educational challenge kids face is money,” says Johanny Quieju, the Primary Education Scholarship Project Manager. “Families either don’t have enough money to provide their children with supplies or things they need, or they don’t have enough money in general and the kids start working at a young age to contribute to the household income,” she explains.
Pueblo a Pueblo exists to relieve some of these challenges for students who otherwise wouldn’t have the resources or support to pursue primary education. With help from your GlobalGiving support, students receive support to pay school enrollment fees, school supplies, gym clothes and shoes, access to medical services and one-on-one tutoring.
We can’t take all the credit, though. Andrea, Magdalena and Jose put in their fair share of effort to complete their primary education. They fulfilled the attendance 90% requirement set forth by Pueblo a Pueblo and worked hard to pass their classes and reach a milestone.
It's a time for all of us to celebrate the accomplishemnts of these students, as we couldn;t have done it without you. Thank you for sharing our vision of education as a tool for success and for contrinuting to the belief that every child deserves the opportunity to complete a primary education, regardless of their economic circumstances. Thank you! We did it!
*Guatemala National Institute of Statistics (2017)
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