By Jeannie Balanda | Executive Director
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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