Ray of Hope
April 21, 2014
Help for special needs children Ray of Hope (ROH) is a special needs school located in Joyabaj, (pronounced Hoy-Ah-Vah), Guatemala. The children who attend have a wide range of disabilities including Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, blindness, deafness, autism, and mental retardation. Although ROH is owned by the Guatemalan government, it receives virtually no government assistance. […]
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Extreme Poverty Needs Our Response
February 27, 2014
Poverty… Guatemala has one of the world’s highest levels of chronic malnutrition in the world. 75% of the population is estimated to live below the poverty line. Four in ten children (43.4%) under five are chronically malnourished (as measured by height relative to age), a condition that causes them to drop out of school, lowers their productivity, […]
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