Interesting article on Gutemalan women & children

Here's a link from a woman who recently visited the highlands of Guatemala. The full article talks about Save the Children and its impact in Guatemala.

Some interesting facts from Dr. Judith Reichman's article include:

50 percent of children under the age of 5 in this country are chronically malnourished and this number increases to 70 percent in the central highlands

At least one in seven of their infants dies before the age of 5.

The illiteracy rate in Guatemala is 69.9 percent for those over 15 (only Nicaragua and Haiti are worse in Latin America and the Caribbean). In several areas that I visited in the highlands, more than 70 percent of the women were illiterate. Most children don't make it past the sixth grade, and 50 percent of Mayan adolescent girls don't attend school.