Child Aid
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Target demographics: poor, indigenous children in rural Guatemala
hearing impaired children in Oaxaca, Mexico
Geographic areas served: Guatemala and Mexico
Mission:
Child Aid’s mission is to create opportunity for Latin America’s rural and indigenous poor through childhood literacy and education programs. We conduct reading programs in partnership with over 25 communities in Guatemala and put books into the hands of thousands of children. We provide critical training to teachers and librarians and offer scholarships to impoverished students. Child Aid’s literacy work provides the means for children to break out of poverty and build better lives for themselves and their families.
Results:
In 2009, Child Aid:
1. Engaged 4,181 children in school-based literacy activities
2. Delivered 13,000 children's books to 36 communities
3. Trained 208 teachers to promote and teach reading more effectively
4. Trained 38 librarians representing 29 rural libraries
5. Partnered with 14 additional schools in rural indigenous communities
6. Conducted 583 one-on-one classroom training sessions for rural teachers
7. Sponsored summer reading activities in 13 indigenous communities
8. Co-founded a new library in the coffee growing town of Pasac
9. Provided quality Montessori education to 105 preschool children from poor families
10. Provided 109 scholarships to impoverished students allowing them to attend primary and middle school
11. Tested more than 1,200 children as part of Early Detection program
12. Served 1,505 poor children and adults in hearing clinic
1. Engaged 4,181 children in school-based literacy activities
2. Delivered 13,000 children's books to 36 communities
3. Trained 208 teachers to promote and teach reading more effectively
4. Trained 38 librarians representing 29 rural libraries
5. Partnered with 14 additional schools in rural indigenous communities
6. Conducted 583 one-on-one classroom training sessions for rural teachers
7. Sponsored summer reading activities in 13 indigenous communities
8. Co-founded a new library in the coffee growing town of Pasac
9. Provided quality Montessori education to 105 preschool children from poor families
10. Provided 109 scholarships to impoverished students allowing them to attend primary and middle school
11. Tested more than 1,200 children as part of Early Detection program
12. Served 1,505 poor children and adults in hearing clinic
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LATarbox
11/11/11
I have been a board member of Child Aid for more than 10 years. I am very careful about how I allocate my volunteer time and resources, and I am proud to be a supporter of Child Aid. I have seen firsthand what a difference our work has made to so many lives, and how far our dollars go in Latin ...
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kindurcan
11/06/11
I am the father of two children adopted from Guatemala and have been working with Child Aid for a number of years as a way of supporting positive change in the country. I joined the board this year and had a chance to visit the country and see their Reading for Life programs first-hand.
I was most...
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