When my brother Mike (our Vice President) and I were little, our Grandmother would send care packages to us that were full of delight. Candy, Cracker Jacks, chocolate coins in tiny mesh bags–enough for all five of us. It felt like a box of joy had traveled all the way from Trenton, New Jersey to…

In 2013, Finding Freedom through Friendship admitted Lorenzo, his blind and widowed mother Rosa and her four remaining children into our program. We did what we do best: FFF provided monthly food donations, we built the family a house, and we educated the children. As time went on a wood efficient stove, furniture for the…

Thanks to recent financial donations, Juana was able to receive much needed medication for her parasitic infection. The contaminated soil and water in Guatemala contributes to intestinal infections that are painful and persistent. The treatment is easily obtained, but our single mothers do not have available funds to medicate their children. Our facilitator, Roland, was…

 For the last three weeks, I’ve been living in the basement while our hardwood floors were being redone. Sleeping on the couch, feeling misplaced and disgruntled, but grateful all the same that I had floors to refinish. And a couch to sleep on, blankets to keep me warm. And heat, water, dishes, coffee. And a…

Here is an excerpt from an international news source that was posted last week: GUATEMALA CITY — Central America is having one of its worst droughts in decades, and experts warned Thursday that major farm losses and the deaths of hundreds of cattle in the region could leave hundreds of thousands of families without food.The…