Child Aid - Building Brighter Futures

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Child Aid recently received a $100,000 matching challenge pledge. If we can raise that amount from our individual supporters between now and December 31, Child Aid will earn an additional $100,000. If we don’t make it, we lose it!

Educating a child is the best way to provide her with a path out of poverty. Thanks to this matching pledge, the impact of whatever you give gets doubled.

Your gift this season is critical. Your support and this historic pledge will help us continue to bring critical educational programs and health services to thousands of children in Guatemala and southern Mexico.

Thank you for your support! Please donate here.

Once again, childhood malnutrition in Guatemala has made international headlines (read Miami Herald story here). The drought in Jalapa department, the worst in 30 years, has depleted food supplies and worsened an already existing food shortage among a huge sector of Guatemala’s rural poor.

We see the effects of malnutrition on children in Guatemala ever day, and this excellent video makes it very clear just how bad the situation has gotten. But the same video provides a serious reminder that “food alone is not enough to change the fundamental economic and social problems at the root of Guatemala’s hidden malnutrition.”

For us, this is further reassurance that, even amidst a food shortage, we’re doing exactly what needs to be done. At Child Aid, we’re in it for the long run. Our mission is to help poor Mayan children get the education they deserve so they have greater opportunities to provide for themselves and their families. And we need your help to do this!