Take a look into our partner, Esperanza Para Guatemala, and the hope they provide in the infamous Zone 18 of Guatemala City. (Part 1)
Take your good intentions to the next level – Support When I Grow Up, and help us to empower children out of extreme poverty.
We asked a few of the children from Esperanza Para Guatemala, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Here are their answers.
Ask yourself one question…Should your geography determine your destiny?
Would you give up your Twix?
Our latest video shows the incredible progress made in the Huruma Slums by Furaha Community Foundation. What started off as tutoring for 40 children in extreme poverty has grown to schools that provide quality education for over 600 students, and assistance for thousands more!
Watch this video and then – Join In The Movement
One of our original videos – The WIGU Effect
Often our e-news shares the great things happening with our global partners and the work they do, and there are great things happening!
We celebrate the success of exam results, expansion, more guardian businesses and more children/families being helped out of poverty.
Since the start of the year your giving has enabled 107,000 meals be served to precious children, many whom are orphans. Amazing, dedicated teachers have taught over 780 class lessons. 1,200 children have received daily school tuition, and over 106,000 hours of trading has been done by guardians/parents of the children to help empower them out of a life of extreme poverty.
BUT ……. life in extreme poverty comes with many bad things that happen as well.
Since the start of this new year ……
440 children have been sick and missed days at our partner schools. Some of them seriously sick and not at school for more than a few days.
370 of their guardians have also been sick and unable to earn or provide for their children.
AND – the worst of the bad things – 156 children have experienced physical violence towards them since the start of the year! (some repeatedly!)
Your giving to When I Grow Up helps us provide better medical care for the children and provide more social workers to be with the children in their home settings and bring protection and care through regular visits, collaborations with the guardians, and staffing of the safe-houses.
Not everything goes good when you live in extreme poverty – help us make it better than bad!
Meet Bramwell, a student at Furaha school, hear his encouragement for other students, and his dreams for the future.
