Change a Life, Educate a Child

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.

The young Fernando has been at the Scheel Technical Education Center since 2014 in which he began to study the third stage. As the years have passed, young Fernando has taken advantage of his studies and has worked hard to get good grades. This new school year 2018 has cost him a bit since his father got sick from his liver because he was drinking a lot of alcoholic beverages and he was seriously ill for a few weeks in the hospital, his liver was very damaged and he could not recover. His father passed away and he loved him very much, which also affected his studies.

It is worth mentioning that in the previous years the young Fernando has had a very good behavior and his school performance has been very good, he is a young collaborator, respectful and very kind.

One of the benefits that Fernando continues receiving from Asociación Nuestros Ahijados in this new school year 2018 is the school supplies, that is a great help for him so he can be up to date in his classes and not be left behind due to lack of materials. Another benefit is that he receives two meal times, which are breakfast and lunch at the Scheel Center.

Also, another of the benefits that the young person receives is the psychological help so that he can recover after the death of his father since it was very impressive for Fernando. Other benefits that Fernando receives are: shoes, clothes, dental assistance, medical assistance.