Author name: Maya Educational Foundation

Iris Baten was recently featured in the magazine Heroínas en la Ciencia promoted by SENACYT (Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología) in Guatemala. I am an indigenous woman from a Maya Mam community. I was born in Cabricán, Quetzaltenango, a town full of natural beauty but poor. My family migrated to Guatemala City to find

We trust you had safe travels home and have started the New Year well. You taking two weeks out of your life during Holiday season and coming to teach our students English is a gift that neither the students nor we will soon forget. Muchas gracias a todas! We know that our students learned so

As 2022 draws to a close, we want to wish you and your families peaceful and cozy Holidays and a healthy and happy New Year. 1992-2022: 30 years of our work could not have happened without you, our friends and donors. You have shown us generosity and kindness all through the years. We are so

The Maya Educational Foundation (MEF) is pleased to announce that a fund has been formally established in honor and memory of our much beloved colleague, teacher, and friend Diane M. Nelson, who passed away in April of 2022. Diane was an anthropologist whose world and world view were deeply entwined with her time and experiences

Dear Friends: In the hope that this reaches you before the flurry of holiday activities, we send you this note. Our year-end Newsletter has gone out in the mail.* You can click here to read it online. MEF is grateful for its 30 years of operation, made possible by all of you who care, who volunteer, who are

Dear Friends: Before we get into the Fall season, we wanted to update you on the online English language program efforts, ELP-online, as well as the English Language Program in Antigua Guatemala, ELP-Guate: ELP-online: Volunteer coordinator Randhi Wilson has been able to raise enough funding to fully underwrite the online English classes with the Beaverton Literacy

Dear Friends: Mid-year, we always send you a letter and here it is electronically. Due to active COVID cases at our small printers, the physical mailing is a little bit delayed. Despite the current political, health-related, and economic hardships, we are doing all we can, every day, to stay the course and keep helping the Maya

Dear Friends: After a flurry of year-end activities, January and February 2022 turned out to be even busier, with new students entering the programs and getting settled to begin their next semesters at universities in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize, some still in hybrid mode, and with MEF disbursing a major bulk of its annual funding

We are very sad to announce that our former board president Marilyn Moors’ grandson Brian Moors passed on from this world in March, at only 41 years young. We send our condolences to his wife and his whole family. We want to thank the kind people who have, on behest of Brian’s family, have sent

We have begun 2022 with renewed strength and determination to bring higher education opportunities to Maya students in Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize, especially for university studies. We are deeply grateful to the Daniele Agostino Derossi Foundation, the Albert & Elaine Borchard Foundation, the Robert Laughlin Family Fund, the Lutz family, and a foundation that prefers