Common Hope Blog

Students at the Antigua preschool had a great talent show yesterday. A couple of kids read stories, a group of boys did a dance to Michael Jackson, two little girls shared a ballet dance, and the students presented group dances and songs. You can see more pictures on our Flickr feed. While you’re there, you [...]

by Debra Des Vignes, volunteer While serving as a short-term volunteer with Common Hope in Guatemala, Debra is keeping a travel blog about her experience. Below is an excerpt from her blog, about her afternoon at our partner school in San Miguel. Tuesday afternoon, I joined a couple of volunteers from Chicago along with a [...]

Each month a plastic box arrives on my desk, filled with checks made out to various schools where affiliated students attend. Attached to each check is a spreadsheet with the names and other information of all the affiliated students at that school. One of my tasks is to review the checks and documentation to make [...]

An article in a recent edition of Prensa Libre, one of Guatemala’s main newspapers, gives some striking data on the level of inequality in Guatemala.  That’s not, in itself, news.  Many reports over the years have characterized Guatemala as among the most unequal nations in Latin America, and Latin America among the most unequal regions [...]