Education for the Children Foundation exists to help some of the poorest children in Central America off the streets and into the classroom, providing a positive alternative to a life of begging
Guatemalans have suffered greatly in the past. During the eighties and early nineties Guatemala had a civil war and at least 200,000 people were brutally murdered.
Escuela Proyecto La Esperanza is a primary school dedicated to educating some of the poorest children in San Felipe, Jocotenango and the surrounding villages close to Antigua in Guatemala.