Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Newsletter: SUMMER 1992 VOICE; Project Report, Letter from Sajonte & 1991 Financial Report; plus WINTER 1992 VOICE: Editorial by Jess Groesbeck & "The Vision of our Work," Newsletter #16 DEC. 2016 in English & Espanol: "Graduation at Chuluc," "The Annual Project for the Poor in Santa Cruz;" & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS FROM 1991 "The Other side of the Mountain--Sajonte," 1990 Financial Report; "Our Work...Essential to the Blossoming," "Exciting Corn Experiments," etc.

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December 19, 2016 --
NEW HISTORICAL DOCUMENT FROM 1992




 click on this link:Winter 1992 VOICE
1.  "Everyone Wins in Our Work"
by Jess Groesbeck, &

2.  "The Vision of our Work" 
by Cordell M Andersen





 click on this link: Summer 1992 VOICE
1.  Project Report from Valparaiso--having produced more teachers than any other rural area from the region
2.  Letter from Sajonte..."The Other side of the mountain" at Chulac.
3.  Annual 1991 Financial Report
Note:  To the left is the first page.  To see in large format the 4 page newsletter.







NEW HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS FROM 1991

NEWSLETTER #16 DECEMBER 2016 in English & Espanol:
"GRADUATION at the ARIEL & INES ANDERSEN CHULUC SCHOOL" &
"THE ANNUAL PROJECT FOR THE POOR IN SANTA CRUZ VERAPAZ" 
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Monday, November 14, 2016

Historical Documents from 1990 -- EMERGENCY AID IN SANTA CRUZ VERAPAZ -- Aura's MASTERS THESIS Set for 2017-- The Ariel & Ines Andersen CHULUC SCHOOL to continue thru 2017 & MARIO WILL FINISH HIS LAW DEGREE plus links to NEWSLETTER #15 NOV. 2016 in English & Spanish (Español)

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2.  Historical Documents from 1989

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NEW:  NEWSLETTER #15 Nov. 2016 
Email notice - Emergency Aid in Sta. Cruz - Aura's Masters Thesis - Mario's Law degree & Chuluc School support for 2017
Español:  BOLETIN #15 noviembre 2016 
Aviso de correo electronico - Proyecto de Emergencia de Sta. Cruz Verapaz - Estudiantes Becados -- La Escuela de Chuluc para 2017 

NEW HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS FROM 1990:
1.  Newsletter Summer 1990:
"Our Progress in Guatemala & the 1989 Annual Financial Report" 
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2.  NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN COLOR....Newsletter Winter 1990:  

"An Adventure At Chulac" 
YOU'VE GOT TO READ THIS AS IT DESCRIBES THE SPIRIT OF THE FOUNDATION LIKE NOTHING ELSE!
Eleven years after the first adventure at the very remote Chulac Cooperative Plantation & Polochic area, the Foundation was asked to help with education as the children weren't getting an education, no adult education available, and employment opportunities dwindling.  Once again the Foundation went to work. 
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Note:  This newsletter was typed and all pasted together in Guatemala--literally with glue, including color photographs--which original pages with color are included here and seen for the first time.  In the U.S. it was then  printed in black & white for distribution....the 5th page is the first page of the black & white version distributed so you can see the difference.

OUR WORK IN SANTA CRUZ VERAPAZ & COBAN

To make sure our funds are sufficient to meet commitments to our two scholarship students, and to the Ariel & Ines Andersen Chuluc School,  while also building up a reserve for promises already made for 2017, we are necessarily being careful with extra projects.  But, we did have 4 Emergency Aid projects during October in Santa Cruz on which $263.67 was spent.  We have photos for two of them, that follow:


A mother, Florencia Cho, lost her husband--and father of her three children,  in a recent accident and was helped with $40 for food to feed her children.   Federico is working on rallying the family and friends to help this poor woman with her children.


Emilio Cho Caal, who is receiving a treatment for a tumor,  was helped to pay his medical bill with $76.67 from the Foundation.

The other two Emergency Aid Projects in Santa Cruz were:  

1.  In the Pancalax Village,  $80 of help was given to Candelaria de Ical to aid her in the burial of her husband, Lorenzo Ical.  Candelaria sends her gratitude to the Foundation, and reminds us that many years ago she was once an employee at the Valparaiso Plantation;

2.  In the El Zapote Village,  Pablo Tahulco Tista, was helped with $67 to help pay the medical bill for his  little daughter who was operated on for a hernia.

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AURA SUCCESSFULLY ON HER WAY TO DO HER MASTER'S THESIS
During October she presented herself to a Committee of 3 professors for her oral exams, and passed successfully  defending what she has proposed as her thesis for her Master's Degree to be done in the first 6 months of 2017.



The theme which she will be working on in relationship with the Coban

 "Garbage Dump Community" 
 where she has been doing an internship for the past 6 months, is:
"A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR  COMMUNITY NUTRITIONAL SECURITY"
In cooperation with the community--the various groups of mothers she has worked with, she will be working on developing a step by step procedure, establishing and defining clearly, THE MISSION, the VISION, the ACTION STEPS & ORGANIZING A COMMITTEE, and DEFINING INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITIES FOR EACH MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE.


Here she is working with one of her professors.  

She appreciates profoundly the help the Foundation is giving her to finally realize what she considers a quite lofty goal for a young orphan baby from the Valparaiso community--which should place her at the head of the education list of those born in Paradise Valley.
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THE ARIEL & INES ANDERSEN CHULUC VILLAGE SCHOOL & our Regional Director, 

MARIO de la CRUZ
Mario, we see behind the children,  successfully guided the school to a successful conclusion for 2016, while at the same time getting close to finishing his Law Degree that will require most of 2017 to finish.  

We, as a Foundation, have accepted the challenge of helping him finish next year, and to do so will employ him again as a teacher, paying his wage, with which he will be able to support his family, and finish his degree in the afternoons and weekends.  



Here Aura & me are--back in May, with this wonderful family who we have the opportunity of helping achieve the kind of education, that coupled with his dedication to his people, will put him in a powerful position to make a fruitful contribution to his people and country for many years to come. 

WE ARE DEEPLY GRATEFUL TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE HELPED SO MUCH OVER MANY YEARS.  LET'S ALL DO OUR DARNDEST TO KEEP IT UP UNTIL
 AUGUST 19, 2017 WHEN WE WILL COMPLETE OUR
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY YEAR--50 YEARS 
OF LOVING COOPERATION WITH A GREAT PEOPLE!
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Boletin #15 noviembre 2016 Nuevos Documentos Historicos de 1990 -- Reportaje de Proyectos en Sta. Cruz Verapaz y Coban -- Aura: Terminar su Licensiatura -- Mario y la Esucela Ariel & Ines Andersen de Chuluc

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Newsletter #15 NOV. 2016 Email notice--New Documents from 1990 including "ADVENTURE AT CHULAC" -- EMERGENCY AID IN Sta. Cruz Verapaz -- Aura's Master's Degree Thesis-- Mario's Law Degree & CHULUC SCHOOL FOR 2017

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Monday, October 24, 2016

NEW HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS FROM 1989, LETTERS OF GRATITUDE TO DONORS, THE MIRACLE OF FELIZA & MIRACLES COOPERATION CAN DO

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NEWSLETTER #14 OCT 2016 "Documents & Miracles" 



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NEW HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
1.  Summer 1989 Newsletter:  Project Update & 1988 Financial Report
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2.  Winter 1989 Newsletter:  The Foundation's altruistic work among the Mayans, Impressive description of Foundation work  by a Catholic Priest, Outline of the PHILOSOPHY & PRINCIPLES OF THE GOOD LIFE.
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FELIZA SAVED:
WE HUMANS CAN DO MIRACLES THROUGH COOPERATIVE EFFORT
By Cordell Andersen
One of our current requests for help was on behalf of Feliza Jul, from Valparaiso, with a needed cancer surgery and treatment. Feliza was one of the first we helped and is seen in the photograph of "The First Central House Family,"  inserted below to the left, she being on the extreme right. In the picture on the right, Feliza is on the left, seen with a daughter and granddaughter on the porch of her home at Valparaiso.
She was the kind of faithful person who, once came to me when I was taking my bath in our lake, saying she needed my help urgently as her daughter was deathly ill.
I told her that it would take me a few minutes to get to the house, dress, and get to her house, so in the meantime asked, "Do you have faith in the power of prayer?"  She answered in the affirmative, and I followed with, "Then go give her yourself a blessing as her mother and a person of faith. just as was once common in the days of Eliza R. Snow who wrote the hymn, 'Oh My Father!'"  
When I got there she said she had given the blessing and her baby was well, happy and smiling.
Back to the present,  her cancer surgery & treatment in Guatemala City  would cost more than we had available and sent the recommendation that she be helped by her church--the LDS, and its members from Valparaiso.  We did make a token donation to help of Q.1,000 ($133), and since have received the following report from Federico:
"….I want to inform you that I visited  doña Feliza Jul from Valparaíso and was told that  in very serious condition she was taken to Guatemala City where she was operated on, and thanks to the Lord, all went well and she is now at home resting and recuperating.  The expenses were covered by donations from members of the community, the LDS Church, and completed by the donation from the Guatemalan Foundation."
This is the kind of "three-way cooperation"  we have always promoted to be able to solve problems in our work in Guatemala:  The people themselves giving all they can;  Asking for help from interested institutions with responsibility for their people; and then, the Foundation completing the amount needed to do the miracle of healing, constructing medical clinics, and schools, adding on to schools needed kitchens, providing educational materials, building libraries, and providing nutritional supplements at schools, and helping to  create needed community developments such as potable water systems, electrification, and more. 

We hope and pray that we can all continue to do our part, joining with our brothers and sisters in Guatemala who are doing their best to do theirs. 
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Here is a picture of Feliza who grew up in the Central House, along with sisters, Cecilia and Rosalia, and brother, Agustin.  She helped us raise our children and in this picture is holding Marcia "Nita" Elizabeth, now Marci Johns, who grew up to serve for quite a few years as a successful Executive Director of the Foundation.


LAST OF ALL I'll quote the words, from one of the newsletters, stated by an Italian-born Catholic Priest from Patzicia who observed our work and said:
"I'm seeing at the CID #2 School the most impressive and effective total development work among the Indians of my 42 years of dedication in Guatemala! I have never seen volunteers for any organization so dedicated to the development of the Indian people.  It is obvious to me that God, for some reason, is abundantly blessing Indian communities where the Foundation is able to help.  I would recommend that generous support be given to this noble institution so that it's work con continue, and multiply its efforts to bless the Indian people of Guatemala."

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PLEASE HELP US KEEP DOING OUR PART WITH YOUR DONATIONS 
AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN.  
THANKS!



Boletin #14 octubre 2016 DOCUMENTOS HISTORICOS--CARTAS DE AGRADECIMIENTO--FELIZA Y EL MILAGRO DE COOPERACION

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Sunday, September 25, 2016

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS FROM 1988, YouTube video of Urban School Project & Foundation To Complete GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY YEAR

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New HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS:
1.  Summer 1988 Newsletter:  >HELPING MEXICAN INDIANS KNOW WHO THEY ARE, >Harold Brown a Foundation Trustee, >GUATEMALAN PROJECT REPORT: Great Things Are Happening, >1987 Annual Financial Report
2.  Winter 1988 Newsletter:  >TOBY PINGREE REPORTS FROM GUATEMALA, >New Classrooms for CID #2 School  & Tontem Village School, >A MODEL FOR TOTAL DEVELOPMENT:  The Valparaiso Community Unites to Achieve Progress & Solve Its Problems

September 9, 2016 
INAUGURATION OF THE URBAN SCHOOL PROJECTSilent YouTube video with captions....3:30 minutes long

The GUATEMALAN FOUNDATION   
Will continue until August 19, 2017 when our
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY  
will be complete.

TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE, WE WILL DO THE FOLLOWING:
1.  CONTINUE  SUPPORTING THE "ARIEL & INES ANDERSEN" CHULUC VILLAGE SCHOOL in the Patzicia  area, by hiring Mario as the teacher  paying him a wage of $300/mo. as we did last year.  Thus he will be able to support his family, and finish his Law studies in the afternoons and weekends.

2.  CONTINUE PROJECTS IN THE ALTA VERAPAZ AREA with Aura playing a more direct role, especially with her designated Project helping the community that has evolved  in and around the garbage dump in the Coban area, and, with scholarship help, be able to finish her degree.

3.  We hope and pray we will also have enough funds to one more time have the School Supplies Project in January for at least all the children in the rural schools of Santa Cruz Verapaz, as well as continue with as many other aid projects as funds will permit.
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

YouTube video: INAUGURATION of the Project at the "URBAN SCHOOL"

URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW..scroll down

September 9, 2016 
Silent YouTube video with captions....3:30 minutes long


IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
We have just learned that our two scholarship students, to earn their degrees, will have to have our help during most of the 2017 school year.  The are: 

Mario de la Cruz, our Patzicia Regional Director &  Law School student, 
&  
Aura Andersen, Masters Degree  Social Work student,  in the Coban area.

To not fail them the GUATEMALAN FOUNDATION 
will continue until August 19, 2017 when our
GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY  will be complete.

TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE, WE WILL DO THE FOLLOWING:
1.  CONTINUE  SUPPORTING THE "ARIEL & INES ANDERSEN" CHULUC VILLAGE SCHOOL in the Patzicia area, by hiring Mario as the teacher and paying him a wage of $300/mo. as we did last year.  Thus he will be able to support his family, and finish his studies in the afternoons and weekends.

2.  CONTINUE PROJECTS IN THE ALTA VERAPAZ AREA with Aura playing a more direct role, especially with her designated Project helping the community that has evolved  in and around the garbage dump in the Coban area, and, with scholarship help, be able to finish her degree.

NEEDED:
Continual help with our donations.  
We know that a few donors have given what they considered their last large donations this year.  We hope that even they will still help some, and have reason to believe that most of us will continue with what we can donate through August 2017 when legally the Foundation will end.

The Foundation will now do a promotion advising all of the YouTube video above, and send a PLEDGE FORM that we hope all will return to us indicating how much support we can expect from each donor during 2017 and thus be able to make promises of support for our 2017 projects in Guatemala.   


I'll insert an image of it above that you can  copy, fill out and send to:
GUATEMALAN FOUNDATION 
P.O. Box 1296
American Fork, UTAH  84003
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Newsletter #12 Sept. 2016--ARIEL & INES ANDERSEN HONORED AT THE CHULUC VILLAGE SCHOOL....HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS FOR 1987 & Inauguration September 9th of theUrban School Project in Sta. Cruz

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Back of envelope message


Two of the students with the framed picture before placing it in the Director's office.

Director Moises Loch deciding where to hang the newly framed picture

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Construction & Inauguration of the Urban School Project in Santa Cruz Verapaz
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Thursday, August 18, 2016

WE MUST NOT FAIL! - HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS FROM 1986 plus ONE MEMORABLE LIFE & DEATH EVENT--AURA'S PROJECT "GARBAGE DUMP or BASURERO"

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THE HISTORICAL REVIEW continues with 
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS 1986:  

ONE HISTORICAL EVENT THAT COMES TO MIND FOR 1986
On November 30, 1986 I made a supervisory trip to Patzicia using my relatively new 4x4 Toyota diesel pickup seen in the photo below, but had on the camper shell covering the back.
  
In Guatemala City I picked up a number of items:  Some machinery for the carpentry shop, a public address system for a school in Santa Cruz, plus a number of Christmas presents for the family and extended family at the Central House. 
As I was ready to head for home, I remembered that one of my employees, Lorenzo Caal, had asked me to get him a BIBLE.  
I stopped across the street from an Evangelical Book Store and went to get the BIBLE. On return to the pickup I jumped up into the cab, immediately opening the window as it was hot, and reached across to roll down the window on the other side....when, all of a sudden the driver's side door came open and a young fellow pushed his way behind the wheel, jamming a 9mm. pistol in my ribs.  A hand reached in the other widow I had just opened, unlocked the door and jumped in with a .38 caliber revolver jammed in my other side.
With me scrunched between the car-jackers, we drove off on the highway leading to the Central Highlands.  As they turned a corner, a policeman was nearby and they warned me to not do anything stupid.  As we drove they talked about how the country's problems could only be solved by killing the politicians, and the rich people who had cars, like me.
I began talking real fast explaining I wasn't a typical "rich guy" rather had just come from supervising a school we operated for needy Indians, and quickly mentioned the Center for Indian Development at Valparaiso, the orphans and needy we took care of, and the out-reach projects we had in many villages, and in Cunen.  The clincher was telling them that a guerrilla leader in our area had old the guerrillas to leave me and the Valparaiso Plantation alone because of treating the workers fairly, and our work helping the needy.
All of a sudden the head honcho, who was driving, turned off the highway into a residential area, stopped and said they'd let me go, and told me to get out--that's when I could have taken action if I had of had in my back pocket as usual my Seecamps .32 cal. pistol--but it was one rare trip when I wasn't armed.  I tried to grab my bunch of keys, and my attaché case, but they stopped me and rather took everything in my pockets (wallet, folding money, even coins) only leaving my dirty handkerchief! They drove off and  turned a corner out of sight.
Within less than 1 minute a Police Jeep came around the corner and I flagged them down, and quickly told them what had happened.  They said they had seen just a block or so away my pickup, with two guys looking into an attaché case on the hood of the truck. 
I jumped in with the police and we raced all over the place hoping to find them, but they had disappeared.  At the police station I gave them all the details, and then reached down underneath my dirty handkerchief for my emergency $20 bill,  and made my way to the bus station to catch the last bus for Alta Verapaz.  
On the bus, by pure coincidence, I found myself with a close friend, Marta Elena Hun, 1985 Indian Queen from San Cristobal, "Princesa Tezulutlan," and the runner-up for the National Indian Crown.

Note:  In May of this year on my supervisory trip to Guatemala, interestingly again on the bus between Guatemala City and Coban, I ran into Marta Elena Hun--the first encounter in 29 years! I'll insert our picture to the right.

In the dark, the bus stopped at the Cruce del CID and let me out, and with just a shirt on my back hiked the mile to the Central House under a tropical downpour, shocking everyone with my appearance and my story.
I had just got through paying for the truck that would be sorely missed for work and the Foundation's projects, and the next day I felt so mad and emotionally upset that I sensed it was making me physically sick--and so I got hold of myself and thanked the Lord in prayer for the blessing of being alive, and able to return to the family, and my people and our work at Valparaiso.  We still had the delivery vehicle, and the tractor & trailer for hauling,  so business could proceed as usual.  In the U.S. I had a relatively new 2x2 Mazda pickup that I soon brought back to Guatemala  to keep the Foundation projects going.  But not having a 4x4 vehicle, and the overall loss of around $28,000,  deeply affected all our work--from which we never completely  recovered.

While on the trip to the U.S. to get the Mazda pickup, the Foundation trustees agreed  to replace at least the stolen vehicle as soon as enough money was available--which  "availability" has never happened.......yet!
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NOTE:  The passing of my mother, Ines Andersen, in late 1986, and the Project in mom & dad's honor in Chuluc will be covered in the 1987 newsletters.
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"PROJECT GARBAGE DUMP"
This is not our project, rather our part in it is a scholarship the Foundation is giving to Aura Andersen who is working to complete her Master's Degree in Social Work.  Her last step is an "Internship" with 
The ASOCIACION COMUNIDAD ESPERANZA. It is a project initiated 13 years ago among the poorest of poor people who live around Coban's garbage dump, and scratch out a living sorting through the garbage for food and items they can convert into saleable items--from plastic bottles, tin cans, etc. 
You can see a 6 minute YouTube video on the project, clicking on 
Proyecto Comunidad Esperanza


The project was started by Father Sergio Godoy who started by playing soccer with the young men, and bringing "atol" for all to drink.  As he won their friendship and trust, he began raising money from his religious community in Spain, and first began helping abused and needy children and youth. It has grown to include an orphanage with 15 children, a school, recreation center, a clinic, and a dinning room where meals are served daily to 400 children and youth.



Aura's internship involves specifically studying the nutritional needs and giving classes to mothers,  children and youth, helping them to understand what is a proper diet for optimum health, and related matters. 
Her work is expanding as she becomes more knowledgeable of the problems confronted by the community.


Helping the Foundation provide a scholarship for Aura is making a huge contribution to the success of this wonderful project, and will prepare her for a lifetime of serving others.
PLEASE HELP ALL YOU CAN  
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DONATIONS FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS HAVE BEEN VERY LOW SO WE NEED YOUR HELP!

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