Educate 300 Guatemalan Children

A CHANGE FOR A NEW LIFE

One of the girls is eight years old and the other is nine.  Both sisters study in the second grade at the Dreamer Center.  They with their mother and their maternal grandfather. They are originally from Antigua Guatemala and currently live in San Felipe de Jesus. Both girls have an older sister who cares for them while the mother is out working.

The father doesn’t live with them, he abandoned them a few years ago.  He was constantly attacking the whole family.  He had problems with alcoholism and drug addiction; the girls were very small and witnessed all kinds of physical violence against their mothr and also were victims of him. The mother asked for help from the authorities, who helped her to stop with the aggressions. After that, she decided to move to San Felipe de Jesús to her father’s house, who gave part of his house for her and the girls. 

With their new life, the mother had to look for a job to support the needs of the girls.   Since the grandfather is very old, he can’t help them financially, he works only at home, he is dedicated to make cloth sacks and he is engaged in sewing in general.

The mother, found a job as a waitress, but did not know what to do with the education of her girls.  Even one of them lost an academic degree because of all the emotional problems she had; for this reason she decided to bring them to Asociación Nuestros Ahijados de Guatemala, ONG; where the two young girls were received to study, in addition to that they are receiving psychological therapies, medical control, school supplies and benefits that they need according to their circumstances.

The girls are still shy and fearful, but as time goes by they are more friendly to their classmates and teachers and to receive a comprehensive education that in the future will allow them to be professional women.  All traumas lived in their past are being  overcome and does not affect their academic development or human interaction with others.