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07 Nov 2010
The completely bilingual network of nonprofits and international aid in Guatemala.
Take a look around, and if you work for an organization, church group, medical clinic, or any other group working to change the country of Guatemala, add yourself to the website!
Use weGuatemala.org to connect your cause to the world, find volunteers, and team up with other organizations with similar goals.
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30 Apr 2012
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/livingthelanguage/2012/04/2012416135...
Also. remember today is the last day that your donations will count towards the Feinstein Foundation giveaway, so please donate today.
08 Mar 2012
Have you ever heard of the Feinstein Foundation? We hadn't, until now...but this is something worth hearing about. Mr. Feinstein is a normal guy from RI--normal with lots of money. And every year he gives away $1 million dollars to agencies that are feeding the poor. That's us!!! ALL money/formula that is donated to Safe Homes for Children/Casa de Sion in March and April will be counted...
26 Jan 2012
Last week I decided to follow Mario and Dominga around while they finished up the 24 communities we were assigned to assess for the new nutributter grant form UDAID. I met them in San Andres where they were working. They had a community worker who helped them find the 6 to 24 month olds from the Central Salud list. They had to walk a million miles to find the 48 babies in this community as no one knew where they...
26 Jan 2012
Last Weds., I went to Chuti-Estancia with Evelyn who is bringing a volunteer team here in April to do work. This is one of our new pueblos. Very large with many poor people. We already have about 25 mamas and their 75 tots in our feeding program and 35 students in our scholarship program from here. The top picture is of the inside of the first house we went to. Single mom with 2 little ones and her parents live here...
25 Jan 2012
We recently hired two new employees. Mario and Juan. Mario will be in charge of the nutrition programs and Juan will be in charge of the educational programs. Both are growing by leaps and bounds. Both have an interesting history that is so Guatemalan.Mario is close to 40 and grew up in Godinez. He is a very active evangelical. He has been woroking for a trucking company in Guatemala City and his job is to...
20 Jan 2012
Three years ago I took my then 2 1/2 year old daughter, Katie, to Guatemala to start the after-school tutoring and feeding program. Ever since then she has been saving her pennies to help the kids in Guatemala. Every time she found/received money she was more likely to put it in her 'Guatemala bank' then in her own penny bank. She had a grand plan of buying each little girl a doll and each little...
06 Jan 2012
The pictures are of some of the grandkids I will be leaving. The little blond is my daughter Flossie's. The one in the football shirt is the one I take a lot of care of.
The left picture is off my 26 year old son and his two boys.
The top picture is off my oldest son, the one who gave me the gift of songs.
They are the ones I wrote about yesterday.
For my hubby's and mine last hot Friday night date night in the...
05 Jan 2012
Yesterday I made a public commitment on facebook to write a blog everyday for the next year. And then I forgot to write. So much for resolutions. But I am of the belief that if at first you don't succeed, try again, so here I am. Some days will be delayed as we are traveling to Guatemala for the next 3 months and nothing is certain there esp. internet connections, but I will write on paper and then later transcribe...
28 Dec 2011
I am reading a book about Mother Teresa. The title of this blog was one of her favorite quotes . Nice thought, huh.
Something has been weighing so heavy on my mind for the last month or two. When I was down there in Oct. , I went to the mama/tot distribution like I usually do. Like usual there were moms waiting to talk with me about various challenges (problems) in their lives. Don't get me wrong. I do not mind...
28 Oct 2011
I was privileged to be in Guate from Oct. 2 until the 14th. Seems my heart is always in more than one place. Here in the states are my kids and grandkids. Also my house that we built and our gardens and orgainic food that we grow. Eighteen grandkids, soon to be 20. And safety and security issues are so much easier. I can drive at night. I don't look over my shoulder 6 times a day.But there in Guate, I partner...
12 Sep 2011
A few days ago friend was visiting the village of Nueva Victoria and found a little girl named Maria. She has not be brought to any of our feeding programs so we did not know she was there. She was born without the use of her legs and she crawls where ever she goes. The friend gave her a wheelchair. They went to check on her yesterday and found her very sick. I am pasting some of the email we were sent..."she...
25 Aug 2011
We first met Manuel and his his younger sister Rosa and his two younger brothers Rolando and Carlos, when they were 6, 8, 9 and 14. They came with their parents who could not afford to feed or educate them and their younger sibs. The parents put them in our orphanage. The kids were great. Manuel won art awards and Rosa was top in her classes at the school. Carlos and Rolando were just 6 and 8 year old boys. Then...
12 Aug 2011
This week we had a great family from Utah come visit. They decided to do an one-time infant and formula distribution at Nueva Victoria. Right now because of lack of funding the only program we have going on in Nueva Victoria is the tutoring/student lunch program. When the Chase family showed up with formula for the infants and encaperina for the toddlers/preschoolers they were greeted by 38 moms, almost all...
06 Jul 2011
Joel is in Guatemala right now doing a great job of making things happen. He writes a wonderful blog everyday with great pictures so if you go to http://casadesion.blogpsot.com and click on the twitter travel link on the right you can see them all. I pulled off a few pictures to show you what is happening. At the top are our new guardian house and new veggie gardens. Thanks to an awesome team, we now have a...
10 May 2011
I stole this blog from Joel (our Twitter Travel guy), I felt like everyone should read it.
"Reality: 56% of Guatemalans live below the poverty line; 80% of the Maya population are below that line
Reality: Guatemala suffers the highest rate of malnutrition in the Western Hemisphere; 55% of Maya children
Reality: Guatemala has the highest murder rate in the Western Hemisphere; 53 per 100K compared to 17 in Mexico and...
30 Mar 2011
Well Joel has gone home until the end of April and the blogs are back to me. i have some great pictures and great news, but first thought you might like to see what happens to missionary type families when family members come to visit. So here are some pictures and a little bit of story on what our family does down here with family visitors.The pictures are numbered from the bottom down. 1. a picture of my husband...
17 Mar 2011
Over 2000 Guatemalan children died of hunger in 2010
According to a report presented Friday by the national Ombudsman office, more than 2,000 children under 5 died in Guatemala during the first 10 months of 2010 as a consequence of illnesses caused by malnutrition.
The report is based on statistics from the Epidemiology Center of the Public Health Ministry covering the period from Jan. 1-Oct. 31, 2010.
“It’s...
17 Mar 2011
Thinking through STM STM = Short Term Missions/MissionariesLTM = Long Term Missions/Missionaries
Below are random (but true) examples:
A.) Team comes to visit. They go on a walk through the small village they are visiting. One boy speaks English. Everyone migrates to him because he can be communicated with easily. He asks for a bike. One man in the group tells the boy offhandedly that he can have a bike. STM gets...
02 Mar 2011
Here are some pictures of the students that a few of you are paying for their schooling. Look at these kids and realize that except for you they would have been able to only go to school thru 6th grade. Now they are in 7th, taking typing classes and going to school with an elite group of kids. Kids who are trying to have a better education and better job possibilities. Our teacher, Gil, at Los Robles has tried his...
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