Catarina’s new house
| Catarina sitting on her wooden plank bed in her former home, April 2011 |
| Catarina in front of her new home donated by Finding Freedom. She has a real door! |
| Catarina sitting on her wooden plank bed in her former home, April 2011 |
| Catarina in front of her new home donated by Finding Freedom. She has a real door! |
Our facilitators in Guatemala know better. They understand that Finding Freedom through Friendship is limited in our financial resources, as are most nonprofit organizations in our current economy. It takes money to feed, shelter and educate children, and this money squeaks from being wrung dry. So we said, and have said for months,”no more.” No more emails…
We are not good at saying good-bye to our Finding Freedom mothers in Guatemala, perhaps because we don’t say “hello” easily. Our selection process for inclusion into Finding Freedom through Friendship limits the numbers of widows we can take to only twenty-five; bringing a destitute mother and her children into self-sufficiency is expensive. When a…
If I lived in the circumstances that our Finding Freedom through Friendship families endure, I have to question whether I would have the emotional capacity to find joy in the holiday season. How many prayers from the women we help have remained unanswered? What endless empty promises from local Guatemalan governments that insist they will improve the…
It happens virtually every time one of our board members makes a public presentation. We are asked “the question.” Why, someone in the audience wishes to know, are you working in Egypt when your organization started in Guatemala? What do the two hemispheres have in common? The answer is simple and complex all in the…
Named Land of the Eternal Spring, Guatemala is renowned for its verdant green mountains and endless undulating vistas. These eye-catching landscapes are noteworthy for the Technicolor of blues and greens that saturate the impossibly high inclines of the many volcanic cliffs. Guatemala’s steep terrain allows the gift of rainwater to collect in geographic recesses, which…