Compassion Beyond Boarders partners with two organizations in the Mayan highlands of Guatemala, both coordinated by university educated social workers.
One project gives scholarships and provides an after-school tutoring program to girls living in a slum on the outskirts of the city of Quetzaltenango. CBB funded the construction of a bathroom facility for this tutoring center. A girl may receive a scholarship to attend a private school if she needs the smaller classes to receive the attention necessary for her to succeed in school.
These girls come from homes without electricity or running water, or perhaps even toilet facilities. Their scholarships purchase their school uniforms and school supplies, and pay their school fees. The average cost of educating 15 girls in this program is $400 annually.
Compassion Beyond Borders also gives scholarships to twenty Mayan girls in Quetzaltenango and in an outlying village through its second partner, BRAUVI. Some girls are in public school while others, because of their exceptional ability, are placed in private schools.
CBB funded the materials for the construction of bathroom facilities for the primary school in the Mayan village of Rio Blanco la Vega, with the labor being provided by volunteers from the village. CBB is currently funding the materials to build a new classroom for the village school, with the villagers again providing the labor.
A dozen girls from remote Mayan villages with only a primary school receive scholarships to attend middle school in the nearest town, Aguacatan, traveling as much as an hour and a half each way by foot and bus.
