A Note of Gratitude From One of Our Students
Finding Freedom remains committed to our scholarship students as they negotiate the unending challenges of virtual education. Francisco has big dreams for himself.
Guatemala
How Dangerous Is It To Be A Woman In Guatemala?
Gender-based hate crime affects women across the globe: an average of 66,000 women are killed each year. By May of 2021, there had already been 159 femicides and 20,000 violence complaints filed in Guatemala; in 2020 the number of violent deaths among women reached 457 as well as 43,482 complaints. Finding Freedom through Friendship is…
A Home Is Not Just A House
It looked so modest once our builders were finished. Seventeen days of construction labor, weeks of FFF administrative paperwork and months of fundraising amounted to a small structure tucked into the mountains above Guineales, Guatemala. The house had a concrete floor, an intact roof, doors that lock, and best of all; it had a family…
Positive Energy Creates Momentum for Guatemalan Widows
It is the end of another year of administrating our organization, and what a challenging one it was. Collectively, our board struggled with the loss of an adult child and the wedding of another; a husband’s surgery and a board member’s cancer scare; the loss of grant opportunities balanced by the generosity of donors who…
The Beginning of the End
These photos are of the same FFF mother. I took the photo (below, center) two years ago while doing home visits with our team. The photo below that was taken two weeks ago. To keep these photos in perspective, Maria has the worst case of diabetes we have yet encountered in Guatemala. Diabetics that are…
Volcanic Eruption in Guatemala: Why We Are Not Raising Funds to Help
Earlier this month, a volcanic event in Guatemala made the international news. For a tiny country in Central America that typically escapes public notice, being in the forefront of televised information indicated a significant and catastrophic incident had occurred, and indeed it had. CNN Article on eruption of Fuego Written records of devastation caused by this…