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What an amazing world we would live in if every mother had the resources she needed to provide for her children. As a new widow living in the mountains of Guatemala, Hilda struggles to find food, water and firewood for her family. She is our most current, and resource-scarce client. Finding the perfect gift…
The Boys
Juan with school supplies from FFF We write so often about girls on this blog. Girls who lack education, who live lives of servitude or grinding poverty which keeps them from blossoming into women who can live their best life. Finding Freedom is all about supporting mothers who lack the critically important things like adequate…
Trying to Sleep at Night
She was our poster child of what a little Mayan Guatemalan girl could look like with proper nutrition, housing and a mother who was receiving all that she needed to care for her children properly. Ana was radiant. When I looked at her photos, I knew our hard working little organization was doing great and…
The Hunger
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…
