Education for 400 children in Guatemala

I hope all is well. The school year has come to a close with graduations taking place. We provide scholarships for students in secondary school and college which is a total of six years education. Twenty of the college students graduated in accountancy and computing and many already have jobs lined up for 2025. Our primary school students who received materials scholarships at the start of the year stayed in school and successfully passed their exams. 

We will be increasing the number of scholarship recipients to four hundred in 2025. One hundred of these will be secondary school and college students with three hundred primary school students receiving school materials. The government does provide the basics at the start of the year though these are soon used up and with families unable to buy further materials the children risk dropping out of school. We provide those children at most risk with extra materials to ensure they stay in school. 

With the expanded Plan Costura sustainable plan we hope that even more students will stay in education with the proceeds they can make from the sewing business as well as single mothers being able to generate an income for their children. We will continue with our local teacher who will give extra-curricular help to the students as well as training in Plan Costura.

Thank you all so much for your support this year which has allowed us to achieve so much and we hope you can continue to support the projects in the future - we have so much still to do!

Have a great 2025

Cheers