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Rotary E Club has supported high school and college tuition for students in the Santa Lucia area, outside of Antigua for over the past five years. Of t hr five college students during this time, one student graduated with a degree last year in social work. She is waiting for an offer of employment as a professor at the same university she graduated from. ( For a university degree in Guatemala one must attend five years, write a thesis, and pass oral exams). Less than 1% of the population in Guatemala has a college degree.
This coming school year, a total of $ 2000 will pay for tuition and enrollment costs for one semester for the four remaining college students. These students are the first in their respective families to finish high school and attend college. For the second semester, contributions to their education, including internet access, transportation, English classes, and books, will be supplied by a group of women who are members and friends of RECGSD. Two of these students have acquired work in their field (accounting and computer engineering) and will contribute to their second-semester fees.
Two students are attending the Universidad Rafael Landivar in Antigua, studying business administration, in their fourth year. The other two students attend the Universidad Mariano Galvez de Guatemala in Guatemala City, studying engineering; one is in industrial engineering year 4, and the other is in computer engineering year 3.
Guatemala is slowly getting tits economy back to normal after the pandemic Of 2020-22. These students are very hard-working and help support their extended families. One of the students, besides college full time, works at Roblox in Guatemala City supporting his Mayan family located in a remote village 12 hours away by bus.
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