Our board thinks every day should be International Women’s Day. After all, women are fifty percent of the population of our planet. Childbirth gives females the unique gift of ensuring that the human population regenerates. Thriving international countries recognize the strength of their female citizens. Countries with limited economic resources find their women struggling with…
Six years ago, Finding Freedom through Friendship took Lorenzo, his four siblings and his widowed mother into our program. It is not a normal business plan format for a nonprofit organization to keep a family in our program for such an extended period of time. In many cases, we have found that the most effective…
This is Ana. She is twenty years old and the mother of a cherubic and stoic three-year old son. Ana is slender and beautiful and her child makes your heart skip a beat when you glide into his liquid brown eyes and allow yourself to envision a life of promise for him. Loving Ana in…
Building our first house donated by Finding Freedom in 2009 was a humbling, dirty and hands-on experience. It was the first and last time that I ever personally assisted with the construction process of one of our Guatemalan homes. There is no part of the blister-inducing process I regret, but there were a few lessons…
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…
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…