The Asturias Academy is more than just a school. It's a movement that is transforming Guatemala.The Asturias Academy serves preschool through high school students striving to improve their standard of living through a unique model of education. It creates informed, critically thinking, socially conscious citizens that ultimately emerge as empowered and engaged leaders in their communities.
The Asturias Academy wants to use education to improve the lives of Guatemalans and we need partners to make this dream a reality. Become a partner by making a donation or voluntering in our movement to transform Guatemala.
Miguel Angel Asturias Academy is a private, non-profit Pre K-12 school in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, founded in 1994 to eliminate education disparities through subsidized tuition, and create informed, critically-thinking, socially conscious citizens through its curriculum.
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Dear Friend, Early unofficial summer greetings from Xela, Guatemala! Hopefully this message finds you happy and healthy as the summer gets underway. Here at the Colegio Miguel Asturias, we have had quite an eventful year impacting the lives of our 300 low-income indigenous students. At this time last year, we were well on our way
Hello friends! April is poetry month (at least in the US) so we wanted to share with you some wonderful Guatemalan poetry! This poem is by Humberto Ak’abal. Ak’abal was born in Momostenango, about 2 hours or so from Xela. He writes his poems in either Mayan K’iche or Spanish or sometimes both! Many of
Recently we welcomed a team of 4 from Northwestern’s Innovate for Impact Program. Jamie Jones led the group, which included Sumeeth Jonathan, Jason Hoover and Howard Lee. The team spent two weeks here at the Miguel Angel Asturias Academy, with the end goal of being able to leave some kind of module that the Academy
