Child Aid - Building Brighter Futures

I didn’t know it either, but it’s true. It’s National Coffee Day!

Guatemala is one of the world’s top producers of coffee, and many of the children involved in our literacy program work seasonally in the coffee industry. Xojola and Pasaq are just two of several coffee communities that participate in Reading for Life, our flagship literacy program in Guatemala. Help support our work in these villages by donating here.

A family drying green coffee beans in the village of Pasaq, a Child Aid partner community

This is also a perfect time to thank the coffee companies that support our work.

- Ethical Bean, in Vancouver BC, is a major supporter of our scholarship program in the town of El Tejar, helping put over 100 impoverished children through grade school and junior high. 
- Jim’s Organic Coffee has partnered with us for years, first to help bring a new library and classrooms to the village of Tzanchaj and now to support Reading for Life in that community.
- Portland Roasting, a Child Aid hometown partner and longtime local coffee company, is helping us bring Reading for Life to four coffee communities in the Guatemalan highlands.

Our warmest thanks to each of these companies for making our literacy work possible.