Finding Freedom through Friendship has a long-standing practice of obtaining deeds to the land we place a donated house on in Guatemala. The deeds are legally titled to the widows who receive the houses we build. Legal paperwork avoids the need for a woman to marry in order to have the ability to house her…
It is the end of another year of administrating our organization, and what a challenging one it was. Collectively, our board struggled with the loss of an adult child and the wedding of another; a husband’s surgery and a board member’s cancer scare; the loss of grant opportunities balanced by the generosity of donors who…
These photos are of the same FFF mother. I took the photo (below, center) two years ago while doing home visits with our team. The photo below that was taken two weeks ago. To keep these photos in perspective, Maria has the worst case of diabetes we have yet encountered in Guatemala. Diabetics that are…
Her name is Francesca and in this photo she is shown holding her son Rodrigo. I fell in love with them both from the minute I received the photo from one of our facilitator, ten years ago next month. This Mayan mama’s smile spoke to me. Hidden villages with emotionally reticent women residing in them…
Henry is a little boy who resides in the gentle slopes at the base of the strikingly majestic mountains that are a hallmark of rural Guatemala. At age six, Henry doesn’t put much thought into why a group of Americans visit his family every year. He is happy to have a new mattress, loves the…
Our faithful readers have noticed a space of emptiness on the Finding Freedom through Friendship blog these last two months. No updates, no organizational information, no posts at all. Communication requires energy that was absent during a dark time at the FFF office. We suffered the death of a father, the expiration of a…