Empower a Girl in Guatemala: Education after COVID

To begin, we want to share with you some wonderful news for the project: in 2025, we will be awarding scholarships to 4,007 girls and young women from rural areas, giving them the opportunity to continue their studies and, over time, improve their quality of life and that of their families. All of this is possible thanks to your contributions, your trust, and the affection you have for the "Scholarships for Girls" project. Together, we make a great team!
In the scholarship project, we aim to empower mothers and women who want to share their experiences and knowledge with the scholarship recipients in their communities—we rely on the Mentor Mothers.

Mentor Mothers are volunteer mothers or guardians willing to share topics such as the importance of personal hygiene, nutrition, self-esteem, and resilience.

The Mentor Mother is selected from among the mothers of the scholarship recipients, based on her commitment, leadership, and personal initiative. She is then trained through in-person sessions to strengthen her soft and hard skills. Later, with her personal and contextual input, she will pass on the skills and knowledge she has acquired to the scholarship recipients.

The impact a Mentor Mother has is highly significant among the girls and young women receiving scholarships. Because she lives in the community, she better understands the local context, problems, and resources—and especially the reality the girls face. This makes her talks and life experiences more relevant and effective.
Will you support us in continuing to provide scholarships and increasing the number of Mentor Mothers?

Links:

• Report 85 - June 2025

International Book Day is a global celebration held every April 23 with the aim of promoting reading, as well as valuing the irreplaceable contributions of those who have driven the social and cultural progress of humanity.

A fundamental component of the project is extracurricular education, aimed at helping reduce the learning poverty of the scholarship recipients; this education focuses on the development of reading and writing skills.

Reasons why our scholarship girls enjoy reading:

• It increases their curiosity and knowledge.
• It keeps them informed.
• It awakens their imagination.
• It allows them to connect and put themselves in the shoes of other people/characters.
• It frees their emotions: joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, love.
• It allows them to research the topics they are most interested in.

Our main goal, through reading, is to empower the girls and young women of the Scholarship Project so they can help develop the reading skills of those in their environment as well: family, friends, and their community.

Links:

• Report 84 - May 2025