Juana Receives Eye Surgery

We first met 5-year-old Juana Silvia back in the spring of last year, when Mission Guatemala first began to work in Nueva Esperanza.  Juana was a quiet, thoughtful, and affectionate child, but she suffered with eyes that were misaligned, her left eye veering off to the outside when she looked straight ahead.  Her mother told [...]

New feeding center opens at Pacaman

Kites rose above the caserio of Pacaman as we descended the narrow, twisting road that wound across the face of the hillside and down into the village.  Soon after we arrived, however, the kites began to be pulled down and put away, and children of the community began to converge on the school. Though November [...]

Niña de la Paz – Independence Day Celebration

I arrived at the school in Nueva Esperanza Friday morning, having been invited by César, the school’s director, to come and participate in the election of the “Niña de la Paz,” literally translated “Girl of Peace,” the child who will serve as the school queen during the upcoming Independence Day ceremonies of September 15.  These [...]

Feeding Center Building Opens in Nueva Esperanza

You could feel the excitement in the air in Nueva Esperanza as the community prepared to celebrate the opening of the new Feeding Center Building constructed by Mission Guatemala.  After many weeks of waiting and anticipation the community was ready to celebrate this new building which will be used to feed nearly 100 children each [...]

Feeding Program Makes Significant Progress

It’s been almost 2 months since the Mission Guatemala feeding program began in hope to improve the nutrition of the school children in Nueva Esperanza. Teachers have commented that they have seen a great improvement with respect to the behavior of the children. The kids are more awake and full of energy to learn, as [...]

Feeding Center Building Nears Completion

The Mission Guatemala feeding center building in Nueva Esperanza is nearing completion.  Once it is finished, the center will be used to feed nearly 100 children each day a healthy and nutritious lunch.  The building will have an eating area and a cooking area. In order to maximize space, the center was constructed with a [...]

Measuring Up and Weighing In

There was plenty of interest and enthusiasm from all the students in the Nueva Esperanza school as each student took his or her turn to be measured and weighed for the Mission Guatemala feeding program. We felt it was important to keep track of how each student in the feeding program is doing, so we [...]

Nueva Esperanza Feeding Program Begins!

There was a feeling of excitement in the air in the little community of Nueva Esperanza when I arrived there Monday morning.  It felt similar to the expectation that can often be felt in Guatemalan villages in the days before the fair, as the first rides are brought into town and set up, or in [...]

Kids Against Hunger Food Arrives!

Fifty one boxes of Kids Against Hunger Food has arrived in Guatemala!  It took some huffing, puffing, and grunting to unload and store the very heavy boxes, but Mission Guatemala has received the 25,000+ meals packaged by Grace United Methodist Church in Franklin, Indiana. The food will be used as part of the new Mission [...]

Feeding Center Going Up Block by Block

With plenty of help from teams from Bluegrass United Methodist Church and Castleton United Methodist Church, the footers have been dug and the blocks are going into place on the new feeding center in Nueva Esperanza. Each day, our foreman Elias, his assistant Rico, and several men from the community have continued work on the [...]

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