The Catholic
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Our Guatemala Journal
May 2002 |
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The Christian Foundation for Children and Aging
CFCA is a lay Catholic Organization creating relationships between sponsors in the United States and children and elderly people in 25 developing countries around the world. When you become a CFCA sponsor your monthly contribution provides life-changing benefits like education, nutrition, clothes and medical care to your sponsored friend.
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Guatemala
The wonderous beauty of Guatemala is breathtaking with soaring volcanoes, lush jungles, ancient Mayan ruins, and a 21st century capital city with glass skyscrapers, luxury hotels, and shopping malls.
Guatemala is also a country of devastating poverty where starvation is a leading cause of death for children. |
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WHAT WE DO
We work for Mr. Enrique Gomez at CFCA's Project San Antonio in Guatemala City. Project San Antonio is responsible for coordinating your support of about 5,500 children, elderly people and seminary students in 22 subprojects located in the city and surrounding mountain villages. We work in the correspondence department where we sort mail and translate letters from children to their sponsors in the United States and Canada. We also visit the subprojects to help in the distribution of benifits.
We each have individual work outside of the office. Donna is the member of our family who does the most work at the office. She also has all of the responsibilities of our home, including preparing meals (on a two burner hot plate) for us and our many frequent guests, doing laundry by hand on a washboard, etc. Audrey is an assistant English teacher at an elementary school. Laurel teaches English at a Catholic seminary that prepares men from Guatemala and other Latin American countries to be missionary priests on four continents. Additionally, Donna and Audrey each provide English language tutoring. What we do here in Guatemala pales in significance to one other thing we do:
WE ARE SPONSORS. Our small monthly donation radically changes the entire life and future of a child. |
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SILVERIA ROSALES RAMIREZ
is the reason we are here.
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Doņa (a title of respect for the aged) Silveria is a widow who, like all of the elderly of Guatemala, must rely on her children for support. But her children are suffering from alchoholism, do not have jobs, and cannot support their mother.
Your $20.00 a month will provide Doņa Silveria with food, clothing, medical attention and Birthday and Christmas celebrations. You will be able to correspond with Doņa Silveria regularly and you will receive an updated photograph every year, a biography, and CFCA publications with stories of your sponsorship donations at work.
If you would like the satisfaction of knowing you are helping build a better life for an aging person like Doņa Silveria, or a child like Edwin Adolfo, please
CLICK HERE. |
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Communications
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