POVERTY ENCOUNTER 2024
student leadership board fundraising 2023-2024
2023-2024 Student Board
They will be fundraising as individuals and as a group for our projects!
This photo was our 2022-2023 board, the new photo for this year is coming!
Please make sure to write in their name on the donation field so we can track who raises the most donations this year! This information will also help all these students as they translate this community service into their college applications!
garbage village fundraising campaign
Father Anton has a relationship with people who are literally living in the local garbage dump. Their entire families spend their whole life in the garbage. They are born in garbage, live in garbage, and perish in garbage. Collecting it and selling it for pennies on the dollar. They are slaves to the garbage.
As Father says “ there is no human dignity here”.
He has purchased land next to the dump and is working with the community to develop it into something that they need! It will be a place to store their garbage, take a rest from the heat, and hopefully have a spot someday for school and health services. It is a long and slow project that will need funding to make an impact for this community!
Can you help us with the funds for this projects?
school sponsorship 2024
Each year we have supported 35+ students to attend school!
We are hoping to be able to continue to sponsor these children each year!!
$150 provides supplies, uniform, and enrollment fees
Any amount helps!
We pool all the donations to help as many students as we can!
Please continue to sponsor students at this school and help us to create opportunities for them!
CHRISTMAS BASKETS 2023
It is almost time for Christmas Baskets Again!
Send a care package of food to a family in Guatemala to allow them to celebrate the holy-day with their families and traditional Christmas foods. We also have the options to send some larger food baskets as well to families who may need extra staples for their everyday cooking.
We will pool all the donations and try to provide as many baskets as we can!
Merry Christmas!
emergency food
The communities near the parish of Izabal, Guatemala have children and families living with severe malnutrition.
Padre Anton and Kathya have started a program of monthly food delivery of nutritious food to those who have the most severe malnutrition. These families are visited monthly and measurements are taken at the start and end of the program to show improvement. We have sponsored 6 months of this program and have worked with them to increase the nutrition content of the program to better manage protein-calorie malnutrition. This program is ongoing.
