Cooperative For Education

The bridges program creates awareness that drives people around the world to action through service, enabling individuals to discover how their gifts and talents can best be called forth to help others. In 2024, the bridges program educated more than 620 individuals around the world through 27 educational presentations (both virtually and in-person) and involved 134 volunteers in direct service on trips to guatemala.

Coed's spark reading program transforms students into enthusiastic, competent, and lifelong readers by providing children's books to impoverished schools in rural guatemala and training teachers in best practices for early literacy instruction. Throughout 2024, the program trained 220 teachers from 25 schools, benefiting 5,370 students. Studies show that kids in spark classrooms typically learn twice as much as kids in non-spark classrooms.

Coed's textbook program provides resources and training that empower guatemalan middle schools to transform their quality of teaching and learning. The program provides textbooks using a sustainable "revolving fund" modelensuring schools benefit from these resources in perpetuityand trains teachers in didactic methods. More than 21,500 students at 180 schools study every day with coed textbooks, including 386 students at 2 schools receiving coed textbooks for the first time in 2024.

57 coed computer centers (including 1 established in 2024, serving 420 students) help to bridge the digital divide in rural guatemala by providing high-quality technology training to 12,400 students. Computer center students gain the skills to continue their education, find higher-wage jobs, and permanently raise their standard of living. The centers are designed to last for the long term thanks to our innovative sustainability model, upgrading their equipment on a planned replacement schedule with money saved in their revolving funds.