This summer, Kansas City cardiologist Dr. Paul Chan is climbing the mountains of Colorado to bring awareness to hunger in #Guatemala. Read his guest essay on the mountains facing the Guatemalan Mayan people. Continue Reading

Meet our newest Champion, award-winning author Yuyi Morales, and hear her reflections after recently visiting Child Aid partner schools in Guatemala. Continue Reading

Heidi Schulz is a wannabe muggle. And don’t get her started on giraffes! This New York Times Bestselling author pens books for children and middle grade readers where she writes about rum-swigging pirates (though she’s never tasted the stuff, herself), and rain puddles with attitude. Now, she’s teamed up with Child Aid as a spokesperson, helping our […] Continue Reading

Thirty student teachers are leaving Guatemala City today – children’s books in tow – heading to their remote home towns and villages throughout Guatemala. The students are participants in Child Aid’s Reading for Life program and will lead a six-week reading program for children in their home communities. “We’ve been working with these young teachers-to-be […] Continue Reading

If there’s one thing World Teachers’ Day highlights in 2012, it’s the need for more primary school teachers if the planet is to achieve Education for All. According to the United Nations, “new figures indicate that two million new teaching positions will be needed in order to meet the goal of universal primary education by […] Continue Reading

Child Aid was the official charity of the 2012 Portland Color Run. Big thanks to everyone at The Color Run, to all of our amazing volunteers, and to the 15,000 people who came out and made the event a huge success. Proceeds from The Color Run will go to our Reading for Life literacy program […] Continue Reading

Great news! Child Aid is the official charity for The 2012 Portland Color Run, “the happiest 5K on the planet”. A portion of profits from The Portland Color Run will go to Child Aid and our Reading for Life program. If you haven’t heard of The Color Run, picture something between the Holi Festival of […] Continue Reading

Last week, Portland-based author Ann Cameron visited Socorro de Belén, a school in Antigua, Guatemala, where Child Aid has been working for many years. Socorro is a school for young indigenous women training to become teachers. Norma Guzmán, a Child Aid literacy trainer, coordinated the visit because she has used Ann Cameron’s books with her students. Needless […] Continue Reading

This year, the Rotary Club of La Conner, Washington helped raise funds for Child Aid so we could send 53,000 children’s books to Guatemala, and distribute them to over 60 rural communities. Once the books arrived in Guatemala, a group of Rotary volunteers from the La Conner club traveled to the country to help with sorting and […] Continue Reading