TEACH listens to local leaders and then partners with them to meet the educational needs of their children. This may mean funds for teacher salaries, contributions for expenses of middle school students who board away from home, or scholarships for students to continue their education. Dedicated parents contribute as they are able to their children’s education.
TEACH has sponsored projects that relate to a community’s ability to support the educational needs of their children. TEACH has helped to establish, build and supply elementary and middle schools; further TEACH has regularly contributed to recruiting, training and paying teachers. TEACH has annually provided scholarships for students to attend middle and high schools. TEACH has provided funding for infrastructure projects, such as a girls’ dormitory, an equipped computer classroom, a new school kitchen facility, a bathroom facility for a primary school, and even a boat and motor to ferry children across a river to school. For some projects, TEACH secured funding through other organizations or through special appeals to TEACH donors.
The Mission in Action
Year Milestone
2017 TEACH sponsored a teacher for one year (2017) in Arcochoch.
2016 TEACH begins to support Dos Zapatillos primary school.
2016 Nueva Generación Primary School is dedicated.
2016 TEACH establishes a partnership with GSSG-Guatemalan Student Support Group.
2015 TEACH sponsors one primary school teacher at Nueva Generación, and funds the building of a primary school classroom.
2015 TEACH begins to sponsor scholarship students from Los Quineles to study grades 7-9 in Puerto Barrios or Media Luna.
2014 TEACH sponsors one teacher at the Punta Arena primary school for one year; government support begins April 2015
2014 TEACH begins to sponsor the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Residence for girls in Quirigua.
2013 TEACH pays teachers’ salaries at a new school in Nacimiento (grades 7-9). This is a partnership with the ‘Esperanza de Rio Dulce’ organization from Austin Texas.
2009 TEACH opens a primary school in Los Quineles.
2009 TEACH opens a primary school in Santa Isabel.
2008 TEACH opens a basico (grades 7-9) named "Instituto San Antonio Maria Claret" in Semuy
2006 TEACH begins support to the primary school in Las Brisas, a small village on the right bank of the Rio Dulce. Project ended December 2012.
2005 TEACH first supports Santa Catalina residence in El Estor for girls attending secondary schools (grades 7-12) there.
2004 TEACH begins to support the Instituto San Pablo (grades 7-9) and its residence for boys and girls in Tamagas.
2004 TEACH opens a primary school in El Quetzal.
2003 TEACH begins to support Casa Indigena, a residence for boys attending secondary schools (grades 7-12) in El Estor. Project ended December 2013.
2003 TEACH begins to support the residence for boys and girls, grades 7-9 at Kateri Tekawitha in Livingston.
2003 TEACH supports and helps reopen the primary school in Lagunita Salvador.
2003 TEACH begins to support Escuela Maya LaSalle primary school in El Estor.
2003 A small donation puts TEACH into action.