Sunday, August 7, 2016

NEW HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS: 1984-85; Photo/essay "TASKS FOR WHICH WE MUST NOT FAIL"

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HISTORICAL REVIEW CONTINUES WITH 
NEW HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS FOR 1984-85
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Photo/essay for Newsletter #8 JULY 2016 
"TASKS FOR WHICH WE MUST NOT FAIL!"
 WITH UPDATING  August 7, 2016  from, 

 email Newsletter #10 August 7, 2016  PROJECT UPDATE
Just titles of previous post follow then UPDATING of projects follow:  

To the right we see an email version of said newsletter  for your information.
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AFTER ABUNDANT GRATITUDE EXPRESSED BY GUATEMALANS FOR THE FOUNDATION & DONORS
WE NOW TRY & MOVE ON WITH OUR WORK
BUT NEED HELP TO DO SO
OUR PRESENT TASKS FOR WHICH WE CAN'T FAIL!
1.  Finish the year helping the ARIEL & INES ANDERSEN CHULUC VILLAGE SCHOOL, paying the wage of one teacher, plus matching community donations to pay the monthly electric bill, nutrition program & related school needs. The need:  An average of $450/month x 12 months, for a total of $5,400/yr. with $2,700 still pending to finish this year.

Our teacher, Carmen Canux, whose wage the Foundation pays.
All the children send you their "grateful hello!"


At the "Celebration of Thanks" back in May, Don Maximo was there having come from his home on his own in his electric cart..... he expressed profound gratitude for the Foundation and its donors having blessed his life with this marvelous machine--
He couldn't imagine anyone giving him such a gift.....to actually be his!
Mario, we see here,  with his daughter, is also very appreciative of our help now half-way through his final year to finish Law School.  
We need to keep the donations coming even during our summer in the U.S. as they aren't on vacation in Guatemala and  every month need our help.
2.  Help for our volunteer Regional Director, Mario de la Cruz, to finish his last year in Law School.    The need:  Including living & educational expenses=$7,847/year with $3,882 still pending to finish the year. 

WE NEED MORE HELP TO MEET THIS COMMITMENT! 
Here we see Mario, his wife, Elena, and their two children, along with me and my adopted 
   daughter, Aura.    
FOLLOW A COUPLE OF PHOTOS JUST RECEIVED FROM THE SUPERVIORY TRIP
Visiting Don Maximo in his home


Breakfast with Mario & Elena in Patzicia -- and me with their son.

3.  Help Aura Andersen, my adopted daughter, finish her Master's Degree in Social Work.  She has suffered greatly being separated from her family since 2002, due to a terrible injustice in the U.S. Immigration system to give  her a U.S. Resident Visa, during which time I tried to not waste time by helping her get her university education.  My funds were eventually exhausted, so I have requested Foundation help, in a sense helping me as compensation for having served as a volunteer for all these years.
  She is now working in a necessary internship with a project under the direction of a Catholic priest who has a fascinating project helping a whole community of very poor people who live and survive in the garbage dump  in the Coban area.  We will be reporting with photos of her internship. 
The need:  Approximately $400/month for the remainder of the year.
4.  PROJECTS IN THE SANTA CRUZ VERAPAZ AREA, supervised by Federico Veliz (Pacay).  Federico has worked with us as a volunteer for at least 43 years, this year distributing educational materials to over 4,000 school children in the rural villages of his area, plus much more, including recently organizing and providing transportation for me  to  the events reported on during June.
We have now provided the money Federico needed to get new tires & fix his brakes.
Here you see me with Federico during one of the Events of the Supervisory trip.
THE URBAN SCHOOL IN SANTA CRUZ  NEEDED  OUR HELP WHICH WE HAVE NOW PROVIDED
Follows pictures of the project to the beginning of August--soon to be completed
 For several months we have been helping the government URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in Santa Cruz with their urgent need of a water tank.  The school you will see in the following pictures is an elementary school in the morning, and in the afternoon the facility is used for a high school level technical/vocational institute.  


We began helping them construct the base for the needed water tank, and now have added re-constructing the deteriorated stairway up to the school, as well as a needed retaining wall.  We need around $600 to complete this project.  



The project pictures below include some of the high school level students hiking out into rural areas to help several rural schools.  You will note them crossing a suspension bridge, which was also a Foundation project a number of years ago.

 NEW PROGRESS WITH THE Santa Cruz Verapaz URBAN SCHOOL PROJECT
 We now see above the water tank mounted on the raised platform we constructed








FEDERICO VELIZ, OUR REGIONAL DIRECTOR HONORED AT GALA EVENT
& OUR  INDIAN QUEEN REIGNS OVER THE VERAPACES
On June 16, 2016 Federico was one of two retired teachers honored, by the Association of Teachers in the Region  for his humanitarian service as a volunteer representative of the Guatemalan Foundation over a period of many years, and literally hundreds of projects he has spearheaded and supervised.    You can see by the pictures I'll insert below that this was a big event attended by all the important people of the area. The Foundation's work has been blessed by having the partnership of this great man, who deserves our gratitude, respect and support in dedicating his life to the needy.


On June 18 in the Regional "TEZULUTLAN" Indian Queen competition in Coban,  the Santa Cruz Queen, Dora Patricia Caal Ho, sponsored by the Guatemalan Foundation, won and became what is known as
"LA PRINCESA TEZULUTLAN"
She will now compete in the National Indian Folklore Festival, at the end of July, the winner becoming known as
"THE DAUGHTER OF THE KING"
To the right we see Dora Patricia sitting. 

PLEASE HELP THE FOUNDATION FINISH ITS WORK!
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