Dear Friends and Family,
I hope you are all doing well! I am so happy to let you know that I feel so fortunate to return to Guatemala with Ingage Unlimited this summer! Our team of educators will be traveling to Guatemala City and Chiquimula, Guatemala in order to support teachers and tutors.
I am overjoyed to be working with The Potter’s House organization and look forward to strengthening the friendships with their staff that were made last summer. The Potter’s House has been providing support for over 11,000 children and their families that live on a garbage dump in Guatemala City for over 27 years and has expanded to Chiquimula in the last several years. Because of their strong ties within the community, we will be visiting homes and learning about the challenges faced on a daily basis.
While there, our team will provide training to educators, healthcare workers and other community leaders who rarely, if ever, receive professional development opportunities. Guatemala’s population of 15 million is one of the poorest in Latin America. Nearly 25% of the country’s population is illiterate, ranking Guatemala 174 out of 194 countries in terms of literacy rate. The average schooling in Guatemala is four years and only three in ten children graduate from sixth grade. It also has the highest rate of chronic malnutrition in children under five in all of Latin America. There are approximately two doctors per 16,000 people in the garbage dump community of Guatemala City.
Each team member has been asked to raise $2700 to
cover the expenses for this serving opportunity. I am
wondering if you would like to be a part of my support team and
help me try to raise these funds? Because this is a volunteer
service trip facilitated by the non-profit
organization INGAGE
Unlimited, all donations are tax deductible and can be
made online here.
I look forward to sharing our experiences with you. Please feel free to email me, mollieking717@gmail.com with any questions or information about our experiences. Thank you!
With much appreciation and gratitude,
Mollie King