Educate 300 Guatemalan Children

Hello, I am 14 years old, I am the third of 5 sisters.

My story begins when my mother heard that in the God’s Child Project helped widowed and low-income mothers. They provided us the opportunity to study at the Dreamer Center and be able to learn.  My dad passed away when I was 8 years old and we were alone with my sisters and mom since I was 12; at that time we were only 4 sisters and we lived in our own house, rented, but it was ours.

My mother was always very hardworking and we hardly saw her since she worked day and night to pay for rent, our studies and food. When my older sister turned 18 she started working too, but she almost didn't help us, she was buying her stuff in order to remove that economic charge from my mom.

Years passed and I continued studying and winning my school years in the Dreamer Center; I always like to study and learn more and more like my younger sister. Years went by and we got used to being only 5 when suddenly my mom started dating again and it was a person that I really don’t like at all, he hits my mom and yelled at us a lot what can I do? She loves him apparentely.

My mother became pregnant with my younger sister in 2018 and it was when we realized that we could no longer study because neither he nor my mother had money to pay for the studies; without God's Child Project, I don't know where would we be.

My mom wasn’t able to pay for the rent anymore and we had to move to my paternal grandmother, I love her very much, but she doesn't like my mother so she doesn't treat her very well. My sister's father does not live with us and only helps my mother for my litle sister expenses, not ours; "We are not his daughters," he says.

The God’s Child Project helped us to continue studying, they were our support angel when we need it most. Now that my little sister is already one year old, my mother is a clothing and makeup catalog vendor and returns with Q50 quetzales sometimes that help our little family survive. 

I love animals and I want to become a great veterinary and help the little ones that need us. 

And for last I want to acknowledge that without you, the ones that believe in our future and in The God’s Child Project mission we definitely would’t be here.

Thank you for always helping us!

Links:

• Volunteer Application Form
• Dreamer Center
• Our Website

The girl entered the year 2018 to the second grade of primary school, Centro Soñador. She is originally from Jocotenango, Sacatepéquez, lives with her mother and uncles. The girl had been in a temporary home in 2017 due to a series of circumstances that led her to that instance. The father of a family is an alcoholic person with emotional problems, and the mother also had problems of alcoholism and neglected the girl and her two children. The father of the family is currently imprisoned for an attempted murder and robbery that he once was committing while intoxicated and was caught by the local authorities in the moment he was harming them. As for the mother, as a result of this situation, she had self-esteem problems that led her to physically mistreat the girl and her brothers; she took refuge in alcoholism and in friendships that would not lead her in a good way. On a certain day, some anonymous person of the neighbors denounced the authorities (PGN) the situation that was lived in the house, so they went to verify the situation and observed that the children were locked in the house, with padlock in the door, they were careless and poorly fed, so they decided to take them off temporarily to the mother. The mother managed the necessary procedures to recover the parental rights of her children; however, she was conditioned to receive all kinds of therapies, both psychological and alcoholism, to meet the requirements of recovering their children. After she recovered them, she wanted to enroll her daughter somewhere that would give her a good academic education, as well as seek help for herself. Thanks to a brother she knew about Nuestros Ahijados and the work done there, she looked for ways to register her daughter, for which she was accepted and helped with the benefits offered by the Association. Currently, the mother receives psychological and medical help monthly along with the girl and the little brothers. They also receive help with clothes, shoes, school supplies and receive help from Verduras on behalf of the Mothers Club program. She also receives help and advice from the Legal Department since the legal process continues, she is still monitored by the State authorities to verify that she is able to continue caring for her children.