This toddler has a brighter look in her eyes now that Finding Freedom through Friendship has started sponsoring her in our program. The monthly food donations are rounding out her cheeks, and she will soon be too big to ride on her mother’s back, as she is shown above. Her mother still needs a water…
There are few things that thrill our board members more than seeing one of the widows in our program graduate from Finding Freedom through Friendship. This final step in our four-tiered organization is a stellar moment for all of us, but most importantly for widows like Irma. As a mother of two boys, one of…
Change comes slowly when working deep in the recesses of Central America. Remember the childhood game of Whack-A-Mole? Armed with a huge mallet, the player pounds a large crayola-colored mole back into place, only to have one more surface too quickly to leave the you with a sense of gratification. There is Progress in Guatemala:…
She was our poster child of what a little Mayan Guatemalan girl could look like with proper nutrition, housing and a mother who was receiving all that she needed to care for her children properly. Ana was radiant. When I looked at her photos, I knew our hard working little organization was doing great and…
With his slight overbite and his unkempt hair he was simply the cutest Guatemalan toddler we had seen in many a year of volunteering with Mayan children. He radiated the calm demeanor of a child who was well-loved and happy to be included in a life that he didn’t yet realize was sparse. When we…
Children seem to appear from nowhere when we visit. Want to see the faces of the next generation in Central America? Stand in the yard of any villager in the mountains of rural Guatemala, and within minutes there will be dozens of beautiful raven haired children at your feet, curious about the gringos and comfortable…
