Hogar “Tío Juan” (loosely, Uncle Juan’s Place) provides a welcome home to young Guatemalan boys and girls with no home of their own. During its 30 plus years, over 8,000 children have called Hogar “Tío Juan” their home. The home provides food, shelter and an excellent education.
The normal school day in Guatemala is from 7:30am until noon. The 400 residents at Tío Juan, however, attend classes from 8am to 5pm every day, including Saturday. With this amount of classroom time, students work through two grades per year! While this schedule provides the students with an excellent education, it also presents a problem. Books in Guatemala are hard enough to come by, but even more so when your students are literally doing “double time”.
Earlier this year Child Aid received a generous donation of books, including a good selection of math text books. We were able to make a generous donation of about 1,000 math books to Hogar Tío Juan. Every year, K - 9, received a set of 40 text books along with accompanying workbooks. They were thrilled to get some new books as the ones they’d been using were battered. Like the children, I think the books have found a good home at Tío Juan.
Child Aid works in depth with 14 communities in Guatemala, but we also assist dozens of other communities and organizations on varying levels, whether we’re providing teacher trainings or donating books. This book delivery to Hogar Tío Juan is just one example of how you, our donors, are helping us make a real impact on people’s lives.
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13 October 2009 at 8:29am
marvin said:
IT IS hardly one of Latin America’s poorest countries, but according to Unicef almost half of Guatemala’s children are 1z0-048 exam chronically malnourished—the sixth-worst performance in the world. In parts of rural Guatemala, where the population is overwhelmingly PK0-002 exam of Mayan descent, the incidence of child malnutrition reaches 80%. A diet of little more than tortillas does permanent damage. This chronic problem has become acute. Higher world prices for food have coincided with a recession-induced fall in money sent back from Guatemalans working in the United States SK0-002 exam (remittances equal 12% of Guatemala’s GDP). Drought in eastern Guatemala has made things worse still. Many families can scarcely afford beans, an important source of protein, and must sell eggs from their hens rather than feed them to their children.
16 September 2009 at 5:57pm
ana said:
hola me llamo jesus y quisiera saber como puedo ingresar a un menor a el hogar tio juan ya que soy una persona de escasos recursos y el es un adolecente que no tiene ayuda de los padres y yo soy la abuela y quisiera que me ayudaran yo vivo en guatemala ayudenme por favor