To read, to learn, to imagine
is a child’s right.

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WE BELIEVE

Every child has a right to a quality education. This education is the foundation for lasting change. To read is to gain knowledge, to learn is to understand the world and how it works, and to imagine is to affect change.

This is a child’s right, and it all starts in the classroom.

Our approach
Our Impact

Our Program

Child Aid works in rural, indigenous communities to increase child literacy by providing teachers with what they need to succeed.

Teachers Trained

Children Taught to Read

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Teacher Training

Teacher Training Workshops

Hands-on workshops designed to give teachers the strategies and techniques that make classrooms more interactive and engaging. Child Aid trainers teach the techniques that build comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Training Teachers

One-on-One Coaching

One-on-One Coaching

Trainers visit teachers in their classrooms over the course of the school year, guiding and supporting them as they apply their skills and build their confidence, assisting each teacher in integrating the techniques they have been learning into the active classroom setting.

Coaching

Classroom Development

Classroom Development

Child Aid classrooms have cozy, colorful reading corners, are full of books, and foster interactive learning for all students. These books bring life to classroom activities and literacy instruction. Books excite students and help develop a habit and love of reading. Teachers lead read-aloud sessions, ask questions and use techniques that help all students learn. Child Aid students read, participate and share ideas. Classrooms like these create independent, confident, life-long learners.

Classroom development

Special Initiatives

Special Initiatives

When a need arises, Child Aid staff are there to create a program or initiative that addresses that need to further strengthen the communities where we work. From pandemic food delivery programs to our new Girls Program, we have time and again defined programming to meet the needs of rural communities.

Special initiatives
Our Supporters

One hundred percent of your donations directly support Child Aid literacy programs. All administrative and fundraising expenses are funded separately by our Board of Directors.

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Where We Work

Child Aid partners with over 150 local public primary schools each year to provide literacy training and resources to rural, indigenous communities, primarily in the western highlands of central Guatemala.

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