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

With Thanksgiving Holidays in the U.S. almost upon us, closely followed by Giving Tuesday, we’d like to first of all give thanks to you, our friends and donors, for believing and supporting our work and for all you have made possible for Maya students in Guatemala, Mexico and Belize already. Each student’s graduation is a

MEF press release August 2021 Dear friends, We’d like to share some exciting News today. A few months ago, we received word that Suzanne Ruta, published author and widow of renowned painter Peter Ruta (1918-2016), had decided to dedicate proceeds from a few of his paintings to the Maya Educational Foundation (MEF) for its cause

Dear Friends: We hope this finds you in good health and perhaps even in vacation mode. Some quick notes for you from MEF: ► Our midyear letter went out in June and for those who do not receive it in the mail or have missed it on Facebook, you can read it here. We thank