Since 1998 The Corner Project's educational resource center has offered the children of Malinalco after-school supplementary educational support, free of charge. Such help is all the more important for the poorest children, whose parents often have not had sufficient schooling themselves to be able to help them with their homework. The rate of illiteracy in the Malinalco area is twice as high as the average for the State of Mexico. Yet the fact that local schools are poorly funded and under-equipped, with overcrowded classrooms serving a double shift of children, means that teachers can't possibly offer the necessary attention to students who may be falling behind.

Children can drop in at The Corner Project to receive tutoring in problem areas, consult a small reference library for their homework, play learning games, learn how to use a computer or practice computer skills, do art projects, sing or simply hang out and talk about whatever they have on their minds. A lending library of children's books has proved to be an excitingly novel concept in this area, and the small collection of donated books is in constant circulation. Given the families' economic needs, they are often tempted to take their children out of school and send them to work; but when the children do better in school, their parents are more likely to keep them there. Often the simple encouragement of finding someone with time to listen seems to make all the difference in improving children's ability to function well enough in school that they can continue their studies.