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20 Stories for 20 Years: Celebrating Our Recent Anniversary

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Our Work In Action

About Limitless Horizons Ixil

Our recent work creating opportunities for the indigenous youth, women, and families of Chajul, Guatemala (2024).

Colegio Horizontes' New Science Lab

Tour our new science lab with Chemistry teacher David Raymundo (2025).

Expanding to High School

Hear from our local leaders during the final stages of our high school capital campaign (2024).

High School Construction

The transformation of the Colegio Horizontes high school from design renderings to a finished high school (2025).

Evelyn's Story

Hear from Colegio Horizontes students Evelyn, who is on a mission to open new doors to STEM education and careers in Guatemala (2023).

A New School for Chajul

Why we opened our own middle and high school, Colegio Horizontes, after 17 years working in Chajul, Guatemala (2021).

Highlights from our High School Grand Opening

Highlights from our March 6th, 2025 grand opening event and come on a tour of Limitless Horizons Ixil's new high school (2025).

Limitless Horizons Ixil

A look back at Limitless Horizons Ixil's work in 2012 (2012).

Saber Sin Límites (Limitless Knowledge) Community Library‬

A video about our Community Library Program

Celebrating 10 years at Limitless Horizons Ixil

See how we celebrated a decade of operations in 2014!

Articles & Books

Readings Related to Our Work

How UNESCO Literacy Prizes Laureates are Keeping Mother Languages Alive

UNESCO, May 2023

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Limitless Horizons Ixil Awarded with UNESCO King Sejong International Literacy Prize

UNESCO, September 2021

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Katie Morrow: Limitless Drive

UC Santa Cruz Magazine, February 2022

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Girls Struggle to Stay in School as COVID-19 Threatens Women’s Progress (featuring Limitless Horizons Ixil)

Thrive Global, March 2021

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Reclaiming Heritage: Bilingual Education in Guatemala

Cultural Survival, June 2019

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Guatemala’s history of genocide hurts Mayan communities to this day

The Conversation, June 2018

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Fighting Poverty in Guatemala: Importance of Public Investment in Education

Global South Development Magazine, May 2017

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Poverty, corruption and racism in Guatemala’s primary schools reflect country’s social problems

Development and Cooperation, February 2016

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Human Rights in Latin America: The Rios Montt Genocide Trial (featuring Limitless Horizons Ixil)

The Globalist, May 2013

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Book: Guatemala Journey Among the Ixil Maya

Susanna Badgley Place, 2013

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Book: Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala

David Stoll, 1994

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Limitless Horizons Ixil is a US-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit with EIN/Tax ID #26-4296182.

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En frente de los bomberos voluntarios 

Cantón Ilóm, Chajul 

+502 5323-0189 (Spanish/Ixil)