Empowering Guatemalan Youth to Promote Literacy
Summary
We provide scholarships and leadership development training to rural Guatemalan teens. In return, they give back to their community by leading reading activities with younger children.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Rosmery is one of our teen reading promoters. Her parents are uneducated yet she aspires to be a teacher, “I want to show that a girl can be something in this world.” Earning just $100/month her family cannot afford her $500/year school fees. Our program allows her to continue studying AND empowers her with confidence and pride as she brings a love of reading to children in her community where there is a 50% illiteracy rate, no means to buy books, no library, nor even textbooks in the school.
Activities
We empower teens to promote literacy. The ability to read enables children to envision and create a better life for themselves. Maria, leader of a local women’s group said, “Literacy is vital to our children’s future. There is no more land to farm.”
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $2,878
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $47,121
Total Funding Goal: $50,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
This project will develop local leaders, increase the number of high school graduates (currently 5%), and break the cycle of illiteracy in the town of Concpecion (pop. 5000) -- creating the opportunities the children need to fulfill their potential.
Project Message
I am enclosing a check because of what books have meant in my life. These kids deserve no less.
- Meghan Kostishack, Reading Village supporter
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Linda Smith
Founder
Reading Village
3210 15th Street
Boulder, CO 80304
United States
303-883-2822
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Reading Village
3210 15th Street,
Boulder,,
CO
80304
United States
303-883-2822
http://www.readingvillage.org
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Guatemala
and can also be found under 
Children.
For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 22, 2009
Latest Update from the Field
Inspiring Reading Village Update
By Linda Smith - Founder and President, October 01, 2009 05:05 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXcrqLoQdCc
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