Fundraiser for Lucia’s children

Mon May 2, 2011 12:01am EDT * Poor countries in Latin America face food price hit * Flexible foreign exchange rates help food effectsWASHINGTON May 2 (Reuters) – Sharp increases in food prices will hit poorer Latin American countries like Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Honduras the hardest, raising their inflation rates by more than…

Finding Freedom through Friendship,Inc., makes it easy to assist a mother in crisis in rural Guatemala.By sending a $25 donation (no tax) to our PayPal account, and e-mailing us at green71957@aol.com with your key chain of choice (# is below each item), you will provide food for two weeks for a selected single mother or…

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…

Irish Mother of 7 Making Fringe in 1914 (photo credit: Marguerite Mespoulet)  Because of my family heritage, Ireland is one of my favorite places to travel. Fellow Finding Freedom board member Mike McNevin is my brother, and we share a mutual interest in the Emerald Isle. I put a lot of thought into my recent…

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…

That is not much of a post title. Nonprofit blog posts are supposed to draw the reader into the post by catchy titles that our followers find so captivating that they can’t resist immersing themselves in the message of the moment. However, I am a loss for words, and time and patience for a country…