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Educational Materials for 48 Mayan HS Students
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Summary
48 indigenous students each year will benefit from academic, vocational, and leadership education. Upon graduation, students will intern in their home communities, serving in development projects.
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Received $517 from 13 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In a remote region north of Barillas, Huehuetenango, Guatemala, populated by 75,000 inhabitants, no educational facility past 9th grade exists for indigenous youth; our center will offer impoverished students further education otherwise denied them. Library resources will serve a critical component in the quality of education they will receive. Dictionaries, encycloppedias, textbooks, literary resources, charts, maps, manuals, and other materials to aid learning are needed.
Activities
An academic education will be expanded through environmental, farm animal, agricultural, and vocational training. Teaching leadership skills will be practiced through a work program with students learning to assist in the supervision of the center.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $517
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $15,983
Total Funding Goal: $16,500
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The project’s long-term anticipated impact is to have the student’s home village benefit from the education. Through internships, graduates will team up with community members to create social and economic improvements in their villages.
Project Message
The Mayan Center will provide Mayan youth with a high quality education that would otherwise be unavailable and is essential to their betterment as my education was to my development.
- Francis Lenski, Board Member
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on August 08, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 29, 2006.
Latest Update from the Field
August 2008 Update to Library
By Mark Latham - Adopt-A-Village Board of Directors, August 08, 2008 06:41 PM
While the construction of the regional library located within the Mayan Center main (school) building is complete, the library itself cannot be completed without the addition of books and other educational resources. Students will be arriving at the center as the inaugural class once the government issues the necessary permits to conduct a full educational curriculum, but they will need the standard texts for the classes to be given.
We continue to solicit and collect donations to equip the library with books and other educational tools that will facilitate and enhance the education the students receive.
However, we still are a long way from our fund-raising goal for the library. We need your financial support to create a first-rate library for the Maya. Your donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you from the Maya to those who have already contributed to our library fund.
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