Project Report
| Jul 31, 2018
Girls Receive Scholarships to Defray School Costs
By Jeannie Balanda | Executive Director
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Scholarship recipients pose with their tutor
Forty lucky girls received scholsrships this past May. MayaWorks funds partial scholarships to defray the cost of school attendance to ensure girls will stay in school. Their mothers, MayaWorks' artisan partners, pay the rest of the cost of attendance with the money they earn from weaving MayaWorks products.
Most of our artisan partners have not attended school beyond the third grade and many have never stepped a foot inside of a classroom. They have struggled to learn to read and they have struggled to learn basic math. From personal experience the women know how important an education is for girls. Because of this, they commit to sending their daughters to school with their earnings. In turn, MayaWorks commits to supporting the artisans as they strive to educate their daughters.
We are proud of the mothers' and daughters' achievements. Most have stayed in school to graduate high school and more and more young women are going on to college. What makes us most proud is that many of the graduates come back to support the younger girls as they pursue their school dreams.
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Mar 5, 2018
MayaWorks Disburses School Suppiles
By Jeannie Balanda | Executive Director
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Girls are happy to attend school
Every start of the school year, MayaWorks disburses school supplies to its scholarship recipients so that they may start the year off on the right foot having everything that is requested by their teachers. It's free to attend school in Guatemala but families are required to purchase uniforms, school supplies and pay travel expenses to transport their children to school. Sometimes these extra costs prohibit families from sending their children to school, especially their daughters.
MayaWorks grants partial scholarships to the daughters of our artisan partners and the families must pay the rest of the expenses to send their daughters to school. Often it is the mother's income that is used to send the female children to school. Unfortunately, when the family has limited income, the resources are used to send the male children to school because they will be the future breadwinners. Little priority is given to educating the daughters.
MayaWorks' artisan partners are committed to sending their daughters to school because they want their daughters to have opportunties they did not have. Most of our artisan partners have never attended school or have only gone up to the third grade. They are extremely proud to contribute to their daughters' education.
Thank you for your support of our education programs.
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Scholarship recipients receive school supplies
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Oct 9, 2017
School is Out but Girls Continue to Study
By Jeannie Balanda | Executive Director
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These girls are happy at the Rosa Moya Center.
The school year is winding down in Guatemala but scholarship recipients will continue their academic formation at MayaWorks' sponsored tutoring centers.
Girls at the Rosa Moya Center in Comalapa will continue to reinforce their weak subject areas with their tutor. They will also come to the center to have access to the Internet since most families cannot afford to have a computer at home. They also love coming to the center because they get to hang out with their friends!
Their mothers, who support their daughters' education with the income they receive weaving MayaWorks products, will also receive workshops during the vacation months. Mothers are very interested to learn new weaving techniques. The Rosa Moya Center has a loom so the mothers come to the center to practice weaving. They also teach their daughters to weave too! Most likely their daughters will never make a living by weaving, but mothers want to make sure that this art form remains a strong tradition in Guatemala.
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