Educating underserved children in Maya communities in Guatemala

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Tamagas

TEACH started to support this site in 2004. In 2019, TEACH is budgeting total funding for the site of $12,060 allocated to: support for 29 students boarding at the San Pablo Instituto en Tamagas (INSPA); salary for a technology teacher; and INSPA student scholarships.

Students from ten communities, many at great distances, come here to take advantage of a sound education. There is a small farm on the property that not only provides some of the food they eat but also uses and supports what they learn in their mathematics and language classes.

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Gorgeous landscape surrounding the San Pablo Instituto en Tamagas, near Río Dulce.

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Three school buildings, left to right: kitchen and cafeteria, library and gathering space, a classroom.

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Library. The holdings are not very extensive.

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Students gathered to welcome the TEACH delegation.

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The eight teachers and administrators at the school. The plaque at the center says that the Institute is a TEACH-sponsored school. There are 90 students in the school, half girls, half boys.

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TEACH representatives checking out the construction (repairing the center room dividers) in one of the classrooms

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Students taking a test.

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The boys dormitory.

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These students are sorting cans and plastics for recycling.

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These eight girls live at the Institute because their homes are a 6-hour walk from the school.

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In 2015, TEACH provided funds for 16 computers, so the computer room is now a real computer center.