Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala provides tuition-free middle and high school education to underserved Maya children from remote villages in western Guatemala. The curriculum at Maya Jaguar Private Technical Institute includes rigorous academics, technical and agricultural skills, and leadership opportunities. A scholarship of $3,500 will fund a student's education, including tuition, books, supplies, internet access, food, housing, and transportation for the school year.
Maya girls in remote villages in the highlands of western Guatemala have few chances to attain a secondary education: middle and high schools are not free and too far from their villages. Without secondary education, most Maya youth have few employment opportunities, remaining stuck in the generational poverty of their families who barely subsist with day labor or subsistence farming.
The Maya Jaguar Private Technical Institute, accredited by the Guatemalan Ministry of Education, offers tuition-free secondary education, plus room & board, to academically qualified Maya youth from area villages. Academics, enhanced with technical and agricultural skills, empowers them to to graduate with vastly improved prospects for gainful employment or even university studies.
Empowerment through secondary education to underserved Maya girls gives them a chance to lift up themselves and their families out of generational poverty. Secondary education usually delays pregnancies common with Maya girls as early as ages 14 and helps them focus on excellent employment potential or higher education.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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