Pencils of Promise

Tujolom Preschool and Primary School

The community of Tujolom is isolated and difficult to access...

La Primavera Preschool and Primary School

La Primavera literally means 'the spring', a fitting name given the natural beauty of the region...

Paculam Ixtahuacan Preschool and Primary School

Paculam is an agricultural community with no running water, which takes its name from the abundance of trees called ‘kulam’ in the local mayan language...

El Jobo #2 Primary School

The community of El Jobo, located in the municipality of San Ramon, lies in the heart of Nicaragua's coffee growing region...

Lacal Tzucubal 2 Preschool and Primary School

PoP is continuing its commitment to provide sustainable education to the Lacal Tzucubal community...

Tzamjuyup Preschool and Primary School

The community members of Tzamjuyup have a strong commitment to education...

Goviepe Todzi Preschool

To carry out our mission of access to quality education for all, PoP has expanded into Africa...

Avata Preschool

Avata is a village of 2000 people with over 300 children who are eager to learn...

Yoxaja Preschool and Primary School

The school in the community of Yoxaja is a large one...

Chicocab Preschool and Primary School

In the past, the children of the Chicocab community had to travel up to 30 minutes by foot each way to the nearest school...

Xepocxuc Preschool and Primary School

Xepucxup is a school comprised entirely of wooden provisional classrooms with dirt floors and tin roofs...

La Pista Preschool and Primary School

The primary school in La Pista is big, and it has a lot going for it...

Benjamín Zeledón Primary School

The community of Santa Isabel, where the Benjamin Zeledon Primary School is located, lies high up in the mountains of Jinotega, Nicaragua's largest department...

Houay Aon Preschool and Primary School

We found Houay Aon through strong relationships built with community members in Chomphet District...

Houay Yen Preschool and Primary School

On the long dirt road to Na Mai Village in the Nambak District, we found Houay Yen...

Hadmad Primary School

A small village of peanut farmers, Hadmad’s 70 families have shown that their commitment to education is strong...

Tecun Uman Preschool, Primary and Middle School

Xejuyup's literal translation is “Below the mountains,” and literal it is...

Paseyeneba Preschool and Primary School

The school, although lacking sufficient formal classrooms, is lucky enough to have a full-size soccer field as well as a basketball court...

Xecax Preschool and Primary School

Xecax is a community of recent migration...

Chuachinup Nahuala Primary School

‘Nahuala’ refers to the town where they came from originally, and ‘Chuachinup’ means ‘in front of the Ceiba tree’ in the local Mayan language of K’iche’...

Guadalupana Preschool and Primary School

The community of Guadalupana is located right next to the Panamerican Highway...

Villa La Preschool and Primary School

PoP looks forward to kicking off its first project in the new region of Nebaj by building three new classrooms in Villa La...

Santa Clara Primary School

The community of Santa Clara serves 5 neighborhoods that were created as a refuge for displaced citizens after Hurricane Mitch...

La Ceiba Preschool and Primary School

La Ceiba is a semi-urban area, and it is the location where many of the other communities where PoP works in this region converge...

El Porvenir Primary School and Telesecundaria

When you arrive at the community of El Porvenir you can tell that the community is very organized, clean and respectful of each other...

Chilopizap Primary School

PoP worked with the Chilopizap community to build new classrooms that replaced the temporary classrooms made of wood and sheet metal...

Pasajquim Nahuala Preschool and Primary School

During the rainy season, Pasajquim’s unpaved roads would become inaccessible making it difficult for children to go to school...

Pachipac Preschool and Primary School

The town of Pachipac is of Mayan Quiche descent and is located in the depths of the Boca Costa region only approachable by unpaved roads...

Phon Hom Preschool and Primary School

Bringing equal access to education to Phon Hom's three disparate communities The majority of families in Phon Hom, a village located 3 hours north of Luang Prabang, are Khmu farmers who have spent their lives living off the land and raising their children the best that they can...

Nam Thuam Thai Primary School

Overlooking endless rice fields and surrounded by picturesque mountains, the view from Nam Thuam Thai Village couldn't be more breathtaking...

Chuachinup Ixtahuacan Preschool and Primary School

The village has a wealth of customs and traditions that are specific to their community and are not found elsewhere...

Laguna Seca Primary School

In the heart of Nicaragua’s coffee country, the community of Laguna Seca sits next to what was once a pristine lagoon--now a dried out basin--where the community gets its name...

Xeabaj II Primary School

The village is made up of 150 families, many who have close to 5 or 6 children each...

Xolcaja Primary School

The weather is hot and the air humid and sticky...

Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan Secondary School

Ixtahuacan, in the native K’iche, translates roughly to Flower of Water...

Los Planes de Chuchexic Preschool and Primary School

The people of Los Planes de Chuchexic are indigenous Mayans of the Quiche ethnicity and work mainly in agriculture...

Sa Nouk Preschool and Primary School

Ban Sanouk hasn’t had an update to their school in over 70 years...

Pha Theung Primary School and Library

Ban Pha Theung is Pencils of Promise’s first ever school and village partnership, and it continues to be at the heart of our organization...

Houay Khang Dormitory

The Houay Khang dormitory for boys and girls will help provide clean, safe and accessible housing to 100+ high school students...

Pong Dong Preschool and Primary School

When we met with the educators of Pong Dong village, they emphasized their need for early education...

Cerro de Oro Primary School

Cerro de Oro sits at the base of Volcano Atitlan, one of three volcanoes that surround the beautiful Lake Atitlan...

Palanquix Cotiyab Primary School

Farmers and laborers by trade, the people of Palanquix Cotiyab are committed to doing whatever is necessary to provide their children with the education they deserve...

El Adelanto Preschool and Primary School

Though the people of El Adelanto have been through decades of violence and struggle, they have endured it all with a resounding sense of civic responsibility and camaraderie...

Xongja Preschool and Primary School

In Xongja, formal education is in its infancy...

Verapaz Preschool and Primary School

Because it is so isolated, Verapaz hasn’t benefited from the presence of the many non-governmental organizations operating in the Municipality of San Ramón...

Pamezabal Middle School

There were so many students at Pamezabal Middle School that roughly 80 students were learning in provisional structures on the roof of the school...

Pasajquim San Juan Primary School and Secondary School

At the end of a poorly maintained dirt road, a long distance from neighboring townships, lies the clandestine community of Pasajquim...

Nambo Primary School

This school for 1st and 2nd graders creates space for 60+ eager-to-learn students to nurture their education...

El Terrero Primary School

Given its undefined political location, both government and non-governmental institutions alike have overlooked this community’s needs for several years...

Bouam Lao Preschool and Primary School

Located in Chompet, just a short distance form one of the wealthiest cities in Laos, Bouam Lao has relatively nothing...

Agua Fría Preschool and Primary School

In 1998, Hurricane Mitch swept through Central America laying a path of devastation across the middle Americas...

Pak Houy Kor Preschool

In Pak Houy Kor, education is important...

Pak Tor Preschool and Primary School

Kids were turned away at the door of the Pak Tor’s first and second grade classrooms...

Montegrande Primary School

Arriving at Montegrande feels like arriving in another world in another time...

Phasouk Preschool

In Phasouk the teachers know each and every student...

Phik Nyai Preschool

There is a small, run-down building next to the primary school in Phik Nyai; it appears to be on its last legs...

Pak Pa Preschool

Sitting on the bank of the Nam Khan River to the North, and lush rice fields to the South, the physical beauty of Pak Pa is stunning...

Bo He Preschool

Located in the mountains, the Bo He preschool is a welcomed addition to the village supported and self-sustaining primary school...

Pha Theung Preschool

If we could define community, it would be Pha Theung Village...

Nunsavat Preschool

A one-room preschool that replaced a dilapidated 30-year-old structure to house Nunsavat’s preschoolers...