2022 has been an exciting and memorable year so far at Limitless Horizons Ixil and July was a month to remember. Construction on our school buildings was nearly completed, and students excitedly moved into their new classrooms. Colegio Horizontes has been years in the...
Notes from the Horizon
Why do you support Limitless Horizons Ixil?
Five years ago, when our new school in Chajul was just a pipe dream, we knew one thing for sure: we needed to make it happen to provide girls with safe, quality, and innovative education. We’ve been blown away by the supporters who have gathered around our mission...
Empowering the community of Chajul to become champions of gender equality
Limitless Horizons Ixil is transforming the lives of Chajul’s women by investing in the area’s most promising youth—girls and boys alike. Men are critical players in achieving gender equality, and while our programs are targeted to girls, it’s why we include boys....
Limitless Horizons Ixil Awarded the 2021 UNESCO Literacy Prize
We are thrilled to share that Limitless Horizons Ixil won the 2021 UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) King Sejong Literacy Prize for our program, “Broadcasting Bilingual Stories: Promoting Interactive Literacy Programming in...
Stopping and growing, in Guatemala
Written by Tim Tendick You see them out the window, as your bus rolls on through a thick afternoon. Hours behind you and hours still to go before you reach your destination, the town on your ticket whose name you already knew. But before you get to that known...
A Year None of Us Could Have Predicted: Planting Seeds & Cultivating Hope in the Ixil Region
Catriona Spaven-Donn spent most of the first year of the pandemic living and working in the Ixil Region of Guatemala as Limitless Horizons Ixil's International Coordinator. Here she shares her reflections, one year later. We were sitting under the terracotta tiled...
Baltazar’s Journey: from the mountain valleys of Chajul to a university scholarship in the USA
Baltazar Anay Raymundo became a Limitless Horizons Ixil scholar in 2008, when he entered middle school. He is the oldest of eight children, two of whom have also been supported through middle and high school as Limitless Horizons Ixil scholars. Baltazar has always...
“My Daughters and Sons are My Greatest Joy”: A Chajul Father’s Perspective on Father’s Day
This Father's Day, Antonio has been looking forward to enjoying a cup of hot coffee as he laughs and relaxes with his family in their Chajul home. Antonio grows coffee in the northern region of Chajul, a six hour...
Meet The Team: Olga Manuela Caba Laynez
Our women-led team is made up of inspiring individuals. This year, we invite you to get to know more about our Chajul-based team through monthly posts! Our librarian and Youth Development Program graduate, Olga, has worked to inspire a culture of literacy for Ixil...