Aldea La Primavera, Guatemala
Ground break December 2022 | Completed March 2023
We’re excited to announce that our school in Aldea La Primavera, Guatemala is now complete and will begin providing vital education to 164 students (76 girls)! We have four wonderful teachers, teaching nine different grade levels.
We are also working with community leaders to identify and enrol more girls and improve the education system further.
We couldn’t have done this without you - so thank you, you wonderful humans!
Aldea La Primavera, Guatemala!
The UN Human Development Index ranks Guatemala as the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and in the bottom 10th percentile of all countries for income inequality. There are more than 3 million people over the age of 15 in Guatemala who are unable to read or write, and more than a million who are living below the poverty line of $1.90 a day. Guatemala has ample natural resources and is the most populous country in Central America. Poverty and inequality rates, however, are prevalent and growing, particularly within the indigenous population.
Guatemala’s small villages and remote communities such as Aldea La Primavera often lack access to quality school structures and classrooms, and a disproportionately large number of those living in poverty are women. The village of Aldea La Primavera is a rural community of approximately 1,600 people located in the Huehuetenango region. Most community members are subsistence farmers who rear livestock and grow coffee, plantains, and corn.
Meet one of our Aldea La Primavera Students
Twelve-year-old Josue is a passionate sixth-grade student and one of 164 children in Aldea La Primavera who can't wait to have a new school to learn in.
You can also tour the old Aldea La Primavera school here:
the build gallery
