Margareta hand-embroidering traditional Guatemalan clothing

With his slight overbite and his unkempt hair he was simply the cutest Guatemalan toddler we had seen in many a year of volunteering with Mayan children. He radiated the calm demeanor of a child who was well-loved and happy to be included in a life that he didn’t yet realize was sparse. When we…

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…

Margareta is the mother of five children. Her husband came to the U.S. several years ago, and the family still owes a financial debt to the coyote who he traveled with. As a result of this debt, the family lost their land which was one of the few things they owned. Meanwhile the husband is…

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…

Four years ago we built her family a tiny but waterproof home with a concrete floor. When it was finished, her mother-in-law claimed legal possession and evicted the her from the new house. Cynthia’s home Since then, Cynthia and her family have been living in a slum outside of Guatemala City, residing in less than…

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…