GSSG: Guatemalan Student Support Group

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This year, 2023, we recruited 6 students to receive scholarships to attend diversificado (similar to US high school). In addition to their scholarships, we will help to secure their success by offering workshops on different topics. Our first workshop was just last week, where we reinforced grammar and writing skills. We also learned that some of our new students have never been to a movie nor even have left their remote villages. Stories like these make us proud to be supporting these kids, and encourages us to expand our reach.
Thank YOU for your continued support and donations.
If you would like to learn more about our students, visit https://gssg-usa.org/our-students/

Our GSSG students and staff celebrating a return to in person classes! We are so happy for them!

𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗘𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗿.
El Porvenir is too small to have its own school, so students usually walk about 20 minutes to the next village to attend school. However, because the students have to cross a river that can sometimes flood, some village families don’t allow their youngest children to make the crossing. Mynor saw that these children were falling behind in terms of education, so he decided to start teaching them the basics of reading and writing once a week. His class has already grown from the four students shown in the photo below to eight students, and he is now looking for funds to purchase better educational materials to help his students improve their reading and writing skills even more.

Congratulations to our GSSG student Verónica Chocooj who recently got married! Veronica is getting her Bachelor in Intercultural Bilingual Education. Congratulations to the new couple!

Mynor Cao Catun is so smart, he found a way to finally install internet with GSSG: Guatemalan Student Support Group support in his house to continue with his studies. Go Mynor!

With proper tools you can change the world!
We want to thank Syngenta US, Rex Dwyer and Latino Community Credit Union for the Donation of 20 computers for our GSSG Students in Guatemala, now they have the tools to study, research and continue growing as young professionals!

12 years ago, our 2 founders John Bodoh and Jorge Paque were having a workshop with GSSG students. Now, all of them are great professionals giving back to their communities! If you are one of those students, could you share what you are doing now?

We would like to send a big THANK YOU to Metabolon, Inc. and Rex Dwyer for the donation of 10 computers that are now at the Instituto Maya Comunitario K'amolb'e - IMACK, where young Guatemalan students have access to world content and tools that would help them achieve their dreams and build a great future in their own communities.

Meet our students!
ERWIN
I am Erwin Oswaldo Cajbón Macz. I am 19 years old, and I live in the village of Las Mercedes Pasacuc, Cobán, Alta Verapaz. I am studying for a two-year nursing degree, at the Galileo University in Ixcan Playa Grande, Quiche.

I grew up in poverty; My father works and sacrifices himself in the fields to support us. I still remember that when I was a child we had a very humble wooden house and without good living conditions, because when it rained, water would enter the house. I would arrive at school in my brother’s sandals, because I had none to wear.

My life has been very difficult, so I will not stop striving for my education to be able to change this reality. My goal is to graduate with a licenciatura [bachelor’s degree] in medicine and to help my family by giving talks on self-care. I want to help my community through supporting other young people so that they can get ahead in their education and give talks explaining the importance of education. The change of educational authorities for the elementary school is also approaching, and I am sure that the community expects a lot from me because I am the first and the only one who is a student at university in my community. I am willing to collaborate in whatever way I can to help my community.

If you would like to know more, you can visit: https://gssg-usa.org/students/erwin/