Helping women in Guatemala

Our Finding Freedom through Friendship board members are fortunate to have our health. None of us have lost our vision, hearing or any major sensory ability. It was therefore understandable that we were reluctant to spend $700 of our funding to assist a young lady in remote northern Guatemala with the purchase of a hearing…

What do your donations of money, when converted into services for our widows, look like in Guatemala? It is a common question from donors who are understandably jittery about the wise use of their funds. Household items for Andrea, mother/stepmother to six children. To Andrea, our donations of household supplies (pictured above) are not just…

The Catapult Foundation in New York City was started by a group of professionals who have backgrounds in journalism, technology and design, and who have a passion for gender equality and the needs of women and girls around the world. Catapult shares our strong belief that there is an urgent need for increased financial and…

On any given day there are thousands of women in active childbirth in rural Guatemala. The highest birthrate in Central America also comes with increased infant and maternal mortality statistics. The numbers are alarming, and reflective of a multitude of health care issues. Combine a lack of health care access, abysmally inadequate governmental funding for…

Finding Freedom is the fortunate and frequent recipient of thank you letters from our participants. Some are hand delivered during our home visits. Others are sent via our facilitators in Guatemala. Each one is a treasure; a written documentation of the challenges and changes we have introduced into the lives of the women and children…