Reading and writing are just the beginning. Our curriculum builds healthy bodies, curious minds, and creative spirits — through gardening, nutrition, art, and social-emotional learning.
A child who learns to grow their own food, nourish their body, and name their feelings is ready for far more than first grade.
Children plant, tend, and harvest in classroom gardens — learning where food comes from with their hands in the dirt.
Lessons that turn every snack into a teaching moment about food groups, hydration, and healthy choices.
Drawing, painting, music, and movement — the universal languages of curious minds.
Naming feelings, sharing, taking turns, and resolving conflict — the skills that hold a classroom together.
We teach children to grow vegetables, herbs, and native crops alongside the curriculum, planting skills they'll use for the rest of their lives.
Snack time isn't a break from learning — it's part of it. Our curriculum incorporates lessons about food groups, water, and the connection between eating well and feeling well.
Malnutrition is endemic in rural Guatemala, a problem LBR takes on firsthand. In partnership with the Mathile Foundation, every student in our program receives Chispuditos, a fortified nutritional supplement — vitamins, minerals, and protein delivered through atol, a local snack.
In-kind donation from a long-standing partner. 100% of the supplement reaches children at no cost to the program.
In rural Guatemala, nearly half of indigenous children suffer from chronic malnutrition. We make sure every child eats before they learn.
Every child in every classroom receives a daily nutritional supplement, Chispuditos. No child in our program goes home hungry.
“When the children are nourished, everything changes. They pay more attention, they participate, and best of all, they smile.”
— Community facilitator, Chimaltenango
Your donation funds the curriculum, the materials, the meals, and the hands that bring it all together.
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