From our partners at Arizona PBS:

Twenty-five percent of the residents of Guadalupe live in poverty and close to 40 percent of the children won’t graduate from high school. But this town of 5,500 largely Yaqui Indians and Hispanics is pushing back against the persistent poverty.

They’ve started with home grown programs to help kids get through school, including the Guadalupe Learning lab, an after school mentoring and tutoring programs run by locals.