Education Beyond Borders

Guatemalan children, especially Mayan children in rural and highlands areas, are living under extremely poor situation; girls are often pressured to quit their school at their age 11or 12 because they should help out their families, cooking, cleaning and farming. They have been discriminated from the masculine-dominated society (machismo) for a long time. With a priority on girls’ education in that girls later become mothers and mothers become primary and foundational educators for their children so it is desperate to empower girls through education, the G 12 Edu Project is founded in Vancouver, Canada, as a non-profit foundation which plays a significant role of bridging Guatemalan (and other developing countries’) children with Korean communities in Canada and South Korea in light of becoming global family.