Jerry and Annette Johns A transformational $10,000 gift to Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala has launched a fundraising initiative to promote special early literacy programs and opportunities for Indigenous children in northwestern Guatemala. Long-time supporters of Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala, Jerry and Annette Johns of Sycamore, Illinois, are teachers and writers who have devoted their professional careers to literacy education. The couple’s donation of $10,000 is the foundatio

A first-hand look at how a nonprofit is helping to educate underserved Maya children in Guatemala By Mary Korbulic Last February, just days before the world was heading toward a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, I spent two weeks at Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala’s Maya Jaguar Educational Center. This Oregon-based nonprofit organization has a strong and beautiful vision of restoring self-sufficiency and self- respect to the Indigenous people of northwest Guatemala throu