Working with vulnerable youth throughout Guatemala, we kept hearing the same situation: young girls weren't being given the chance to write their own stories.

According to the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report, the odds are stacked against you if you're a Guatemalan girl—especially if from a rural, indigenous village. 

We established a community home in late 2013 to serve our first 15 girls, all experiencing severe poverty. In the Luminarias home, we provide our girls opportunities that can get them to graduation and to college if they wish, transform their futures and improve their lives and communities for generations to come.