Mission
Child Aid’s mission is to create opportunity for Latin America’s rural and indigenous poor through childhood literacy and education programs. We conduct reading programs in partnership with over 25 communities in Guatemala and put books into the hands of thousands of children. We provide critical training to teachers and librarians and offer scholarships to impoverished students. Child Aid’s literacy work provides the means for children to break out of poverty and build better lives for themselves and their families. The name of our core literacy program is Reading for Life.
Guiding Principles
- All children, regardless of where they are born, deserve a chance in life.
- People, not projects, are the key to long-term success.
- Local, committed people know the most culturally appropriate way to efficiently accomplish change in their community.
- Education is the one vehicle that impacts poverty on all levels.
- Programs need to be innovative, rich and, above all, sustainable.
