Helping students in Mexico's Copper Canyon and Guatemala

Our Copper Canyon Scholar program helps students with low-cost, zero administrative fee scholarships. Isela is just one of many students who are still in school in the Copper Canyon because of this program. CCA is proud to help students in Guatemala through the purchase of school supplies and school registration help.

Isela Perez Requejo, a Copper Canyon Scholar

Distributing school supplies in Antigua, Guatemala

As part of our commitment to "give back" to the communities in which we live and work, we are very proud to be involved in special programs to help impoverished students in the Copper Canyon and Guatemala continue their education thru low-cost, high payoff scholarships and direct donations of school supplies and cash to purchase such supplies.

In the Copper Canyon, this assistance is thru scholarships which range from $150 USD per year for a Middle School/Junior High School student, to $200 per year for a High School student. Once initiated, these scholarships are administered by the local Parish, which disburses funds as needed directly to the student for supplies and tuition--the student must produce receipts for all purchases and expenditures to guarantee that all funds are used for education only.

Donors may begin a correspondence with the student. In addition, we can arrange for you to visit your sponsored student in the Copper Canyon, if you wish.

In Guatemala, our assistance takes the form of school supplies purchased from your donations, and also direct support of at-risk youth in Guatemala City's most impoverished neighborhoods, where running water is nonexistent, gangs are rife, and drugs and violence threatens to sap the spirit of these young children.

You can view one child, Christian Ichich's details here.

Once again, 100% of your donation goes to support--there are no administrative costs, and you are invited to visit the students you are helping. The cost of paper, pencils, school registration, notebooks, etc, is so very little compared with the cost of these students being unable to continue down their educational path.

We ask you to take a look at these programs, and hope you can help us help the young lives of these talented students.