If you want to see a little slice of what heaven on earth is like, let me invite you to explore Santiago, Atitlan and especially, a little school called Puerta Abierta, or Open Door. Puerta Abierta’s mission is to empower children to use creativity, critical thinking and literacy to become innovative problem solvers. Through developing […]

  It’s hard to fully capture the feelings of joy, gratitude, excitement, and fulfillment that I’m feeling today. We invited Sara Morales (my ‘tocaya’ — one who has the same name as me), the music teacher at our program in El Tejar, to come with us to visit Chacaya, because we knew of the gifts […]

Hello everyone! Hola! Sarah here, checking in from Santiago, Guatemala. Suddenly, we are on day five of our trip. Yesterday we made our way to the beautiful Lake Atítlan and today we will cross the lake in a public boat to visit three of our partner schools and libraries near Santiago, Atítlan. We have brought […]

It’s good to be back in Guatemala. If I’m counting right, this is my 17th trip in the last eleven years, and it has come to feel like another home. For ten days, Sarah Robinson Bryan, PEG’s Director, and I will be traveling to visit a few projects and connect with possible new partners here, […]

As PEG celebrates its tenth anniversary, we are excited to share news of some exciting and positive changes in the way we do this work. The biggest of those is that we have recently hired Sarah Robinson as the new Executive Director. PEG is a small organization, so that’s not a full time job, but […]

December 2, 2014 Dear friends, It has been an exciting year for PEG Partners, as we celebrated our tenth anniversary. We are moving in some new directions, with a sense of potential in the air. That seems just seems right on an anniversary and at the new year, when we look both forward and back. […]