Educate 300 Guatemalan Children

He is a young man of 15, he was born in Santa Rosa. He presents the problem of total loss of hearing in his left ear since the age of 8.  In 2013 his parents took him for a medical examination, but the diagnostic wasn’t very hopeful because a hearing device couldn’t be installed because he did not have the needed skin tissue to place it.

This young man was born into very poor conditions, he never had his three meals each day, unfortunately neither the mother nor the father could attend school which is the reason why finding a job has been hard for them.  The father is a day laborer in Finca Filadelfia and the mother is a housekeeper.  He has a younger brother who is 12 years old.  Finca Filadelfia provides them a little piece of land for them to live on.  They have made a small room with metal tin and some wood, which does not have the basic services that are water and electricity.

Starting this year, Asociación Nuestros Ahijados has been supporting this young man with his studies, he is now in 7th grade at The Scheel Center, having the opportunity of improving for life. Also he can receive medical, physiological and dental care as part of our services. He is doing well at school, according to his teachers, he could do better but because of his hearing issue it is difficult for him.  He is a very shy boy and tells that he would like to be a National Police Officer, so he can be able to support all those people who are victims of violence.  His brother is also receiving support from us and is studying Stage III at The Scheel Center.

 He is working hard every day to improve and to have a better future, despite his hearing problems he never quits and comes to school every day.  We are very proud to be able to to help him improve his life.

Carlos Antonio Carias Monroy

This family is originally native from Jalapa, they decided to come to Antigua in order to improve their life quality. Unfortunately, once they were already settled, they realized this was not what they were aiming for; the father became an alcoholic and mistreated both physically and verbally his whole family. As a consequence to this situation, they split and the mother decided to go back to Jalapa.

A little after the mother went back and started working, she got a rare disease that leads her to death. All of this was so sudden that nobody realized she was so sick and by the time she got to the hospital could only spend two more days there before she passed away.

All of this caused problems with the family one more time. Relatives from Jalapa were trying the father would bring them to Antigua in order to provide economical support, but he had already raised a whole new family with a different woman and wants to know nothing about his older children who were brought to Jocotenango in order to start a debate and delegate custody. The children are taken to the childhood and youth court located in Chimaltenango.

Two of the kids Nelson and Jennifer are given to an uncle (mother’s brother) while Jorge Mario and Carlos Antonio are given to their grandma (mother’s mother) But after a while, grandma got all of them because the uncle couldn’t support them.

Three of the children start to study at the Scheel Center, One of the programs of Asociación Nuestros Ahijados de Guatemala. During the past summer, they had the last debate were Nelson and Jenifer were separated from their siblings and taken back to Jalapa and grandma got to keep just two of them. Currently just Carlos who is now 11 years old is currently in fifth grade continues to study at the Scheel Center.

Carlos is very happy because he has found at the Scheel Center not only psychological and academic help but has also gotten clothing and shoes, all of this because he dreams to become a professional lawyer in order to help his family and other children that may have the same problem he and his siblings went through. Even when he says he doesn’t lack of love and his grandma constantly shows this to him, he misses his siblings. He is also very conscious and grateful for the help he gets because he knows how much this represents to his grandma.

Henio Wilfredo Pérez

Departamento de Guías.