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All posts by Lois Werner

I WANT TO BE A JUDGE

San Martin Jilotepeque                    March 2021   My name is Lucy Rosario Zamora Popol. I am 20 years old and I live in village called Varituc el Carmen in San Martin, Jilotepeque My family is made up of four people. My 45-year-old father Baudilio Amado Zamora Atz,

For the first time in my life

“I am 65 years old and for the first time in my life I have a cement floor in my house.  Our community worked together to help each other mix  the cement and pour each other’s floor” said Tranquilino at the celebration in San Miguel, Choatulun, a remote village in the municipality of San Martin,

Extreme Poverty Intensifies During Covid Crisis

Submitted by Blanca Batzibal, Social Worker On June 30, July 1 and 2, 2020, food was delivered to 55 families in 10 remote communities and 3 communities near the center of San Martin. The communities visited were, Lo de Silva, Los Magueyes, Los Osorios, El Rancho, El Sapito, Choatalun, Pacoxpon, Sauce Xejuyu, Las Escobas, El

Families connect during COVID19 crisis

NERY TUY FAMILY Families Connect After reading about this family in our May 2020 newsletter, a family in Hartford, Connecticut responded with a gift.  Greg and Judy Reilly contributed $267 to pay off half of their loan and have pledged to pay the remaining half in three months.  Amilcar delivered the good news, Q2,000 from

He Wants to Calm the Pain for Many People

José Danilo Estrada Cusanero, 13 years old, attends 7th grade. His father is Edgar Benjamin Estrada Yucute, 43 years old. His older sister is Claudia Elizabeth Estrada Cusanero, 15 years old.  They live in Santo Domingo Quimal Village. On September 9, 2013, Danilo’s mother, very early in the morning, got up to prepare her children

Graceland University Students’ Memoirs

Nursing students at Graceland University, Independence, Missouri campus, visited us in May 2018 for one week.  Their instructor, Sharon Stoetzel-Little, R.N., asked them to write a journal.  Here are exerpts from five of the students.