Child Aid

Child Aid works to lift Mayan children out of intergenerational poverty using quality primary education as the lever. We focus on rural villages where illiteracy disproportionately affects Indigenous people, and in the early grades where education has been shown to make the biggest impact on overall life chances. We are energized by the urgency of not wasting the talents and abilities of another generation of children to improve their lives and those of their communities and nation.

We are a vibrant and growing community committed to tackling an endemic problem that disproportionately affects young children in marginalized villages in the Guatemalan Highlands.  Over the past decade, as Child Aid has grown rapidly, the central role of the Guatemalan staff has likewise accelerated. Today, Child Aid has a staff of 50 full-time local employees in Guatemala, all of whom are Guatemalan nationals, the majority of whom are Mayan.

Furthermore, we believe in working in coalition and across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to leverage the diversity and collective knowledge that can leave to more sustainable livelihoods for the local people.