Child Aid - Building Brighter Futures

Children in Cabracan holding up recently arrived books

The Peace Corps has a strong presence in Guatemala and often works in remote areas that Child Aid does not have easy access to, primarily because we lack the resources, staff and time to get out to these extremely isolated areas. The aldeas (villages) out here have very few books, and the children face incredible difficulties in learning to read because of this. Recently, however, Peace Corps volunteers made the arduous journey from the mountainous village of Cabracan, where they’re working, and down to our warehouse in Chimaltenango to pick up a donation of over 1,000 books. They are using these books to make six sets of cajas viajeras, or traveling libraries. These books will reach villages that are inaccessible by roads, offering most of the children in them access to story books for the very first time.