Katie in Kentucky Estela in Guatemala This is my daughter Katie. She is twenty, a college student and a good friend to all who know her. She recently came home to use my kitchen so she could make a home cooked meal for her best friends who were in town for the holidays. Katie cooked…
Catarina was first referred to Finding Freedom through Friendship in April of 2011. Since being accepted into our program, this mother of three adorable girls has had some profound life changes. Catarina suffered from Tuberculosis and hepatitis when our facilitator, Roland, first met her. She was so thin that it was easy to assume she…
Here is an excerpt from an international news source that was posted last week: GUATEMALA CITY — Central America is having one of its worst droughts in decades, and experts warned Thursday that major farm losses and the deaths of hundreds of cattle in the region could leave hundreds of thousands of families without food.The…
As board members of a nonprofit that concentrates on the humanitarian and educational needs of Mayan women and children, we tend to focus our informational reading on Central American issues. The internet broadens our horizons, as happened this morning, when I opened my email and received the newsletter from Madre, a nonprofit similar, but much…
Many people wonder about the name of our organization, but they aren’t forward enough to ask. Today was the day.Our local postal worker, who has seen our return address label many times, couldn’t help himself. “Just who is this Finding Freedom through Friendship organization anyway?” he asked. There was a long line behind me, it…
