2024 Projects

  • 53 Students Sponsored for School in 2024, We also had 3 sponsored students graduate and have their younger siblings now enrolled!

  • 25 Christmas Baskets sponsored and delivered + holiday dinner with the school

  • Along with Padre Anton and Stella Maris parish, Supported construction of a community center within a garbage dump where 60 families live and work in the garbage. Community center has offices for social work, running, water, a classroom, and ability to have a better set up for the people in the dump to recycle the plastic collected in the dump for more money for their families.

  • Helped purchase a compressor and scale to allow the people in the dump to be able to accurately weight, measure, store, and sell their garbage at a more fair price for recycling

  • 6 visits with emergency food to Chiquimula

  • 2 emergency medical visits have been sponsored

  • 37 local students served on our Student Advisory Board here in Ohio, students from Chagrin, Kenston, Orange, NDCL, West Geauga, and Solon participated.

  • Hunger Banquet put on by our Student Advisory board, had > 75 people attend and raised both awareness and funds for our summer projects

  • 3rd Service Learning Trip in June 2024 - 5 people traveling to Chiquimula and to Puerto Barrios in Izabal, Guatemala to serve and learn in the Parish with Padre Anton Grech. Two from the student advisory board. Discussion with the computer teacher about helping fund the computer lab in Chiquimula, the only one in the region.

  • Isabel Eye Clinic: As part of a Girl Scout Gold Award project of a member of our Student Leadership Board - Sponsored a new opthamalogical instrument to allow the eye doctors to better examine eyes in the low cost clinic, and be able to travel to remote villages to perform exams.

  • Isabel Eye Clinic: Collected, packaged, and delivered over 1000 pairs of eye glasses to the clinic

  • 100 Days for Girls menstrual kits were made and packed here locally to bring to Guatemala.

  • 10+ Smokeless stoves have been funded and installed in Guatemala.

  • Funding secured to provide a starter fund for a local Guatemalan community who want to build a church in their community.