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Proud! and Thankful! Scholars

High School Graduation (Diversificado)
	Maria Luisa Juarez Sanchez (16 yrs), graduated in November from the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Comerciales, with her diploma in Secretarial Studies. She lives on the Santa Anita coffee plantation, and has high hopes of an office job rather than picking coffee every fall. Getting to high school each day for her meant 30 minutes down a bumpy and rocky dirt road to reach the highway, where she'd take a bus for another hour to the closest high school.
Her proud parents threw a party on the scale of a wedding reception to celebrate such a special event as a graduation - Maria Luisa is the first in her family to finish high school

Our Program now has 8 graduates working in professional jobs within their area of focus -
an outstanding success rate.

This info also keeps our current students motivated,
knowing that their chances of finding a professional job are high.

Middle School (Basico)
Grades 7-9

COST $80/year
tuition, uniforms, supplies, bus
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High School (Diversificado)
Grades 10-12

COST $300/year
tuition, uniforms, supplies, bus
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Numbers Behind The Scholarships

Average annual family income (gross) - $1,300

Average annual cost of public transportation to/from job - $420

Number of scholarship applications received for next year - 100+

Number of scholarships we could support last year - 61

	Thank you, with all my heart, for the help you have offered me; for the time and the care everyone has given us students...
	...For everything, a thousand thanks
	There are so few people like you, willing to take on such a huge responsibility for the students in this region... our Guatemala needs people like you

Why The Scholarship Program Works
	Supports teens from 8+ indigenous Mayan communities in the rural western highlands
	Administered by a committee of community representatives and staff from The Mountain School (La Escuela)
	Committed to supporting a teen until graduation
	Requires students to maintain a certain grade in all their classes
	Offers monthly support activities for students and their parents
	Requires students to re-apply each year in order to demonstrate their grades, community activities and commitment to school

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