Cooperative For Education

Coed's rise youth development program gets kids into school and ensures they can reach the milestone of high-school graduation (focusing primarily on evening the playing field for girls, who are often the first to be pulled out of school in guatemala). The program goes far beyond a traditional scholarship, providing tutoring and mentoring, comprehensive social support, and personal development opportunities that transform students into the next generation of leaders. In 2023, 740 girls and 191 boys benefited from rise.

Coed's spark reading program transforms students into enthusiastic, competent, and lifelong readers by providing children's books to impoverished schools in rural guatemala and training teachers in best practices for early literacy instruction. Throughout 2023, the program trained 243 teachers from 30 schools, benefiting 5,700 students. Studies show that kids in spark classrooms typically learn twice as much as kids in non-spark classrooms.

The bridges program creates awareness that drives people around the world to action through service, enabling individuals to discover how their gifts and talents can best be called forth to help others. In 2023, the bridges program educated more than 900 individuals around the world through 40 educational presentations (both virtually and in-person) and involved 173 volunteers in direct service on trips to guatemala.

Coed's textbook program provides resources and training that empower guatemalan middle schools to transform their quality of teaching and learning. The program provides textbooks using a sustainable "revolving fund" modelensuring schools benefit from these resources in perpetuityand trains teachers in didactic methods. More than 21,800 students at 191 schools study every day with coed textbooks, including 390 students at 3 schools receiving coed textbooks for the first time in 2023.

56 coed computer centers (including 2 established in 2023, serving 400 students) help to bridge the digital divide in rural guatemala by providing high-quality technology training to 12,000 students. Computer center students gain the skills to continue their Education, find higher-wage jobs, and permanently raise their standard of living. The centers are designed to last for the long term thanks to our innovative sustainability model, upgrading their equipment on a planned replacement schedule with money saved in their revolving funds.