Dany is Margareta’s youngest son. He has a congenital deformity of his foot that will be operated on by Children of the Americas as a donation of care in January. Meanwhile, Dany is very happy to have enough food for the month.
Manuela and her mother just received their June food staple donation from Freedom through Friendship. The maize, beans, cooking oil, sugar, pasta and other essentials have been donated to this family since February. Manuela suffers from anemia, and our facilitator will take her to a physician for an evaluation next month.Meanwhile, as a stipulation of…
Her name is Francesca and in this photo she is shown holding her son Rodrigo. I fell in love with them both from the minute I received the photo from one of our facilitator, ten years ago next month. This Mayan mama’s smile spoke to me. Hidden villages with emotionally reticent women residing in them…
All of our board members have had hard days as a parent.Carpool runs late, a child is sick, work issues abound or we wake up with a headache that just won’t go away. There are good days and then there are “those” days that are best forgotten.For Catarina in Guatemala, there were many of “those”…
Maria found Finding Freedom through Friendship while some of our board members were visiting her community during a sugical team trip with another organization. This was one determined mama! Maria made her way past the hospital guards late in the evening, ran up to our (with three small children hangning onto her skirts and…
This is Ana. She is twenty years old and the mother of a cherubic and stoic three-year old son. Ana is slender and beautiful and her child makes your heart skip a beat when you glide into his liquid brown eyes and allow yourself to envision a life of promise for him. Loving Ana in…
Finding Freedom through Friendship exists because of men, or rather, the lack of them. The widows and abandoned Guatemalan women and their children in our program were in crisis in the mountains of Central America; without a good husband, children go hungry and women are without emotional and physical shelter. A family, in the truest…