Actions Speak Louder Than Words: What Service Learning at Casa Guatemala Looks Like
Four travelers reflect on an eight-day impact adventure in Guatemala with Somos and Sage International School Casa Guatemala, the nearly 50-year-old NGO educating Indigenous Q’eqchi’ Mayan children on the banks of the Rio Dulce, welcomed a group of students, parents, and educators from Sage International School in Boise, Idaho this past April. Their itinerary included […]
Education in Guatemala: The Malnutrition Crisis Holding Children Back
Education in Guatemala’s rural indigenous communities begins with a problem most people don’t see. In Guatemala, roughly one in two children under five suffers from chronic malnutrition. Guatemala ranks first in Latin America and sixth in the world for child malnutrition (ReliefWeb), and the burden is not evenly distributed. Among indigenous children, the rate of […]