Maria and her elderly mother are preparing to move into their new home donated by Finding Freedom Through Friendship. Maria is our first client and her acute need for safe and structurally sound housing was the reason FFF was founded. I first met her almost one year ago. At the time, her youngest son was…
I’m a firm believer in spiritual leaders. Personally, I need them; I seek them out, read their books, breathe their messages into my pores. I have to have mentors to keep me sane while working in Guatemala, a country of insane poverty, gender inequality and scholastic inadequacy. All of our board members are people of…
I’ve been back from my home visits to our Finding Freedom through Friendship mom’s in northern Guatemala for 2 months now, but certain images stay with me. Our board members have received photo discs I copied for them of some of the special moments of the trip. But it is the un-taken photos that I…
Petronia before treatment in spring 2013 She is 34 years old, with four children and a husband who is a laborer in rural Guatemala, which means he can sometimes find work and sometimes not. The only unusual thing in the sentence above is that she survived to the age of 34.In May of 2013, the…
Many people wonder about the name of our organization, but they aren’t forward enough to ask. Today was the day.Our local postal worker, who has seen our return address label many times, couldn’t help himself. “Just who is this Finding Freedom through Friendship organization anyway?” he asked. There was a long line behind me, it…
“I have spoken with many Guatemalan men and women about them coming to the USA to find work. All of them have been in a desperate situation. I have told them all it’s not a good idea to go illegally to the States. It’s dangerous and more than not they won’t be able to find…
