Easter Baskets for Sponsored Students

We have received assignments for 5 students and are still awaiting additional assignments. I am excited to extend an opportunity to enrich the lives of these families further.

Please consider giving to the Semana Santa Easter Basket Drive. If you would like to give directly to Mayan Families and make sure it goes to a sponsored student's familiy, please contact me at givingtoguatemala@gmail.com and I can give you the information you need. Please let me know if you are choosing to participate(in other words, prevent duplicates to some families and nothing to others). You can also donate directly here and I will aggregate the funds for donation.

(this will NOT be tax deductible).
Thanks,
Kim

You can find more information below:

Semana Santa Easter Food Baskets
3/15/2009 permalink tell a friend

This year we are a little late with getting our notice out about Semana Santa
( Easter ) food baskets.
Hopefully, we will have it sent out to everyone by next week.
But in the meantime, I wanted to let you know that we will be doing Easter baskets of sweet bread and chocolate.
At Semana Santa it is the tradition for families to eat sweet bread and have drinking chocolate. Many of the families that we work with cannot afford to share in this tradition.
Last year , I think, we gave out about 250 Easter baskets, I can't remember exactly and I don't have the information here with me in Australia....but I think it was close to that.

This year, because so many families are in need of food, we would like to increase the food basket, we will have the sweet bread, a block of chocolate to make hot chocolate, sugar but we will also include a dozen eggs, oatmeal and the vitamin enriched cereal, Incaparina. The food will be put into a plastic bucket that has many uses in a Guatemalan household.

If you would like to give a basket to your sponsored student or for any family in general ...please send your donation through our website and mark it for Semana Santa ...the baskets will cost $35 US.

If you would like to send a check, please send it to Mayan Families, 2609 Hartford St.,
San Diego. CA 92110.

The need for food is very critical for many of our families. If you would like to share this information on other websites or on your blog, please do so.
We would like to have as many families as possible be able to celebrate Semana Santa and to have a full belly!

Thanks,
Sharon

Great things are coming....

We have had a generous adoptive mom donate web hosting and her services to design a new website. It is in the works and is shaping up to be very exciting.

As we convert over to the new site, we will be using the blog for updates. I will tell you more about that when the changeover takes place.

There are several projects in the works and I am looking for more ideas. Some future projects include:
1. school supply drive
2. food baskets for student's families
3. water filter project

What other things would you like to be part of?

I am also trying to get a comprehensive list of organizations that work in Guatemala (no matter how large or small). Please let me know if you know of anyone who is working to improve the lives of Guatemalans. givingtoguatemala@gmail.com

Stay tuned as our efforts continue to grow.