For those of you in the Portland, Oregon area, here’s a small but interesting event you might want to check out. It’s part of the Witness for Peace Northwest Speaker Tour. NAFTA Turns 15: A Look at Free Trade, Food Security and Migration in Oaxaca, Mexico Take a deeper look at the effects of NAFTA, […] Continue Reading
Child Aid News
Raising the Literacy Rate in Guatemala
Guatemala has the lowest literacy rate in Latin America. Less than 10% of children enrolled finish high school. Child Aid is working to change that. Check out this great new video that two of our supporters helped us make. Karena O’Riordan ran around Guatemala for days filming numerous Child Aid libraries and interviewing parents, teachers […] Continue Reading
Donated books ready to go in Guatemala
Finally, the books arrived to the Child Aid bodega in Guatemala!! It was a long haul, but our program coordinator, John van Keppel and Child Aid partner Rigoberto Zamora (of PROBIGUA) got them out after they were held up in port for over a month. The shipment of donated books (over $850,000 worth) were trucked […] Continue Reading
Welcome to the Child Aid Blog
¡Bienvenido! Child Aid finally has a blog! We want to keep you up to date on the great things you’re helping us do for children and indigenous communities in Guatemala and Oaxaca, Mexico, and we thought this would be the best way to do it. Now you can check in whenever you want and we […] Continue Reading