

Education: Hope for a new generation of Maya
by Frances Dixon Isabel was eight years old and crying hard. Another year had passed by and still her father would not allow her to...


Moved by a mission: helping to educate underserved Maya children in Guatemala
A first-hand look at how a nonprofit is helping to educate underserved Maya children in Guatemala By Mary Korbulic Last February, just...


Mask-making initiative raises thousands for impoverished Maya
Mary Jane Henley is an educator and lawyer who dedicated her career to working with children and adults with intellectual disabilities...


Celebrating our Maya Jaguar graduate: Estela lands top nursing position
On a rainy February afternoon during my recent stay at Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala’s Maya Jaguar school, AAV’s founder and executive...


Honoring family
Family has always been at the center of Shirley Ubinger’s life. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Shirley and her late...


State of Jefferson Rotary E-Club helps improve lives of underserved girls in Guatemala
Eighteen-year-old Isabel Ramirez studies in northwestern Guatemala. She is an excellent student who loves to learn. At school she serves...


Paying it forward in Guatemala
While browsing in a jade shop in Antigua in 2003, Fran Lenski, picked up a flyer with a photograph of an impoverished Mayan girl on the...


Family finds joy in sponsoring a special-needs child in Guatemala
Residents of Newport Beach, California, Alison and Charlie Nightingale and their family have supported Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala for...


RACHEL arrives in northwest Guatemala
It’s 2018. Now stop for a moment and try to imagine your daily routine without Internet access.The Web and the information that is...


Sharing a mission of hope for children in Guatemala
I learned about Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala through a friend and was pleased to find that one of the organization’s top priorities...