Child Aid is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit based in Portland, Oregon working to promote literacy in Latin America. According to Child Aid's mission statement, the organization works to "create opportunity for Latin America’s rural and indigenous poor through childhood literacy and education programs." Child Aid works primarily in Guatemala, as it is the country with the lowest literacy rate in Latin America. Child Aid also founded and oversees a speech and hearing center for poor children who are deaf or hard of hearing in Oaxaca, Mexico.