Educate Street Children in El Salvador

Sofía is fifteen years old, she has always been a girl with dreams of becoming better. Her mother is the only one who works to support the family. She left her husband 10 years ago; for this reason Asociación Nuestros Ahijados started helping the children with scholarships, food, health care and a house building.

Despite the difficulties in El Salvador, they’ve been trying hard for them to reach their dreams as they would like. Sofía is in 10^th grade and her brother, who is also receiving a scholarship, is in 8^th grade. They are receiving a monthly support and at the beginning of this year they received a “School Supplies” bag.

The mother works as a baby sitter, this job is not very stable, she is only making $50.00 monthly, she also makes tortillas to sell even when this is not a big income. Their life conditions had improved thanks to the house that Asociación Nuestros Ahijados built for them, having a safe place to live since then.

Other of the benefits that she has had is a “Dental Treatment” that was paid by her Sponsor. She was suffering of a lot of pain because she had damaged all her teeth. Now she is doing good and does not feel pain anymore.

She is a brilliant student and helps her mother every day selling tortillas. They are very happy with all the support received from Asociación Nuestros Ahijados, since without it they wouldn’t be able to succeed in school.

Joselyn is 19 years old.  She has been part of the Project in El Salvador for eight years; as many of the other children she is part of the scholarship program to be able to study.  During this time she has received economical support and also food supplies such as rice and beans.

Thanks to this support, her older brother also was part of Asociación Nuestros Ahijados and was able to graduate as a Profesional Math Teacher and this year, Joselyn was able to graduate from High School as the best student of her class.

This family has had many problems since the father abandoned them and never received any support from him, for this reason Asociación Nuestros Ahijados supported them with a House Construction.

Currently the older brother is working as a teacher in a Municipal School from Guazapa, he also has been a great support for them at home, with his help and the help of Asociación Nuestros Ahijados the family has been able to move forward.  Joselyn’s goal is to study Psychology, even when she knows that this is something complicated to achive, she knows that it is very important to give a better future to her family.

The mother is very greatful for all the support that they had received during all these years, and she knows that if it was not for Asociación Nuestros Ahijados, she couldn’t be able to send her children to school and give them a better life.