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  During our youth, we spend the days, if not months, before this Christmas holiday, wanting. If you are over 40, you may remember doing that “wanting” by thumbing through the Sears catalog, one miraculous page at a time, dog-earing the ultra thin pages, and making our list, so Santa would know exactly what we…

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”…

Petronia before treatment in spring 2013 She is 34 years old, with four children and a husband who is a laborer in rural Guatemala, which means he can sometimes find work and sometimes not. The only unusual thing in the sentence above is that she survived to the age of 34.In May of 2013, the…

For many women in the United States, Guatemala can feel like a mysterious and complex country. It is admittedly difficult to find the similarities between the concerns and responsibilities of Guatemalan mothers as compared to those of mothers in the United States.   But as with most people worldwide, there are more similarities than there…

As you can see from the post below, the need is great in rural Guatemala following the ecological disasters of last weekend. Concerns for destroyed crops and the impact this will have on a country already ranked as having the highest rate of pediatric malnutrition in Central America are rising. However, the immediate need is…

Two photos, both taken with my iPhone: One breaks my heart, the other fills it with joy. For two years, Raquel (above) was one of our Guatemalan sponsored students. We were cautiously optimistic about the opportunity that lay before this young teenager. The oldest daughters of widowed women in rural Guatemala carry a heavy burden…