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Your support is helping thousands of students learn from home!
For years, the Guatemala Literacy Project (GLP) has helped Guatemalan communities—which exhibit some of the most extreme combinations of systemic poverty, illiteracy, and inequality in the western hemisphere—transform their quality of education through four core...
The GLP’s 2019-2020 Global Grant is Approved!
The Rotary Clubs of Guatemala Oeste and Sudbury are thrilled to announce that the Guatemala Literacy Project (GLP) Global Grant for the 2019-2020 Rotary year has been approved by The Rotary Foundation! Global Grant #1989785 is for a total amount of US $631,247. This...
Delivering Food to Families in Need
It’s 11:00 am and you wouldn’t believe how hard the scorching sun hits when you’re nearly 7,000 feet up in the mountains of San José Poaquil in Chimaltenango, Guatemala. The scene is almost surreal. A community leader, officially appointed by the local government,...
The Journey to the Center of Ak’Tenamit
In the eastern part of Guatemala lays a school by the name of Ak’Tenamit. Ak’Tenamit serves as a boarding school for students in grades 7-12 and is one of the newest members of the GLP's Computer Centers Program. With the addition of new computer equipment, they are...
2019-2020 GLP Annual Report: see what your support has done this year!
Dear Fellow Rotarian: Thanks so much to all Rotary clubs and districts who contributed a total of $631,247* to the Guatemala Literacy Project this year! Please click here for the 2020 GLP Annual Report. Education is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty that has...
COVID-19 Update
Dear GLP Family, We hope you’re all doing well during this unprecedented time of the Coronavirus pandemic. Many of you have been asking about us and what is happening in Guatemala. This curious time has us all feeling separated and disconnected as many of us take to...
February 2020 Tour Highlights
Just last month, we packed our bags and headed down to Guatemala to meet 52 eager travelers for two INCREDIBLE project tours. With weeks’ worth of hilarious and heartfelt stories, we couldn’t pick just one favorite memory from tour…so we decided to give you...
Best of Guatemala Travel Recommendations 2019
Thank you all for joining us here for our first ever Best of Guatemala Travel Recommendations! After spending time on a project tour with the GLP, volunteers often ask to stay a little while longer in Guatemala. I mean who wouldn’t after visiting this beautiful...
Rise Graduate Meets Michelle Obama
Education made this possible. Ancelma was born in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, where 95% of students never graduate from high school. Through the GLP's programs, Ancelma beat these odds, earned her diploma, and broke the cycle of poverty in her family. So when...
Empowering Girls in Tech
Hacienda Maria students proudly holding their new Microsoft certificates Melinda Gates once said, “If you want to lift up humanity, empower women.” And that is exactly what the community of Hacienda Maria is doing. This year, 18 GLP Computer Program students from...