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One Tiny Family, One Big Difference
Guatemala consistently falls short on international parameters for the well-being of its people. Rank this Central American country’s numbers for crime, poverty, literacy and violence against women, and Guatemala’s statistics fall in the red zone.The current humanitarian crisis in the world is unprecedented. BBC radio recently reported that the United Nations needs 16 BILLION dollars…
Manuel and Family with food donation from FFF
Finding Freedom does not usually support married women. In the case of this family, FFF was concerned that without food donations, Manuel’s wife would be a single mother soon.We have been working with a physician friend in Guatemala to diagnose Manuel. To date, his physical wasting has been diagnosed as severe diabetes. The logistics of…
Positivity to Balance the Negativity
It is so easy to be emotionally frozen in this rotation that our planet is in. We are a spinning globe of fear and troublesome times; divisive political relationships, millions of homeless immigrants, wars that never end. Mix this moras with historically damaging weather patterns and it is enough to make our collective hearts miss…
Sylvia: Severing Ties in Guatemala
This Mother’s discharge from our program felt like divorcing a family member. Finding Freedom through Friendship (FFF) has discharged women from our program in the past; we have a signed contract with each family that outlines our rules and regulations carefully. Before entering into FFF each mother is read the contract in her own dialect…
The Gift
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…
Margareta is sponsored, thanks to our donors
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…

