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Help a local family have a home.

These are my friends Maribel, Mario and their 2 children Carolina (2 yrs) and Daniel (5 yrs). They are originally from San Antonio Palopo on Lago Atitlan, Guatemala. They now live in San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala where I have been living on and off for over 10 years.  I have gotten to know Maribel and Mario well over the last two years and I have been helping them out financially, to allow Daniel to begin school, which he LOVES. Also, to pay for food and lodging.

They came to San Pedro to try to sell local clothes and crafts to the tourists that come through in abundance here. They set up their "stand" daily on the side of an abandoned building. They do not have a home and have to pay every night to stay at a very run down hostal. They pay $4 per night to stay all together in one room, with one bed, no blankets and no kitchen. Any food they buy, is packaged or prepared.

The days they sell nothing, they will owe to the hostal to sleep and have no money for food. Sometimes, they sell enough to pay for their room, and eat, but in the slower tourist season, they are in debt to the hotel for weeks and have no money for food and have to go hungry. Now that Carolina is not breastfeeding, they have another mouth to feed.

Last year they approached me about loaning them money to buy a small one room house, so they have a place to live and cook. I have not worked in a long time and have no money to give them... although I still try to help out with food and lodging.

They can buy a small house for $600 and have enough left over to pay for Daniel's school for 2 years! I would love to raise as much money as I can for this very sweet, gentle family. I have come to care greatly for them, and would love to see them get on their feet! Please help out as much as you can, even $5 will help them sleep and eat for one day. Thank you for your generosity! I will post again, when they receive what we can raise for them!

P.S. the cute white girl is Milla, my friend's daughter who they loooove!
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  • Teresa & Raul Gonzalez
    • $525 
    • 9 yrs
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Carie Fischtein
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Thornhill, ON

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