Simon Rutter is fundraising
Providing Food to Guatemalan Families in Need
Donating 40$-50$ can support a family of 5-8 for a month!
For years, the town of San Juan La Laguna, in Guatemala, has welcomed students from Where There Be Dragons, a cultural immersion program that focuses on responsible and authentic travel that benefits both the traveling students and the local communities they visit. Welcoming us into their homes, the families in San Juan have for years shown incredible generosity and warmth. Students have often fostered such powerful relationships with their homestay families that they have referred to them as their second family and maintained their relationships with them by communicating through Facebook.
As a result of the current coronavirus pandemic, tourism and economic opportunity have completely stopped, leaving hundreds of families in San Juan without income (likely until the coffee growing season begins in October).
Some families are resorting to hanging white flags to show they are starving.
Now that the residents of San Juan are suffering so severely due to the coronavirus pandemic, it is time that we return their generosity by donating to provide food and essential items.
Donations will go to the Centro Maya Project (centromayaproject.org), which has been providing food for about 25 families in San Juan for years. Since the beginning of coronavirus, over 100 other families have requested help in putting food on the table. Food for a family of 5-8 is only about 40 USD per month.
Our goal of raising $3,000 would help provide food to almost 100 families for a month.
Donations will go towards providing emergency relief to families in the form of full or partial food allotments of beans, corn, rice, protein-enriched cereal, salt, oil, fresh vegetables, and powdered milk (incorporating the World Health Organization's recommendations for nutrition), as well as essential vitamins, soap, and toothpaste.
Please consider donating whatever you can-- small donations can still support families for weeks.
The Centro Maya Project has other programs that support the local community in Guatemala.
Click this link to learn more: https://centromayaproject.org/
For years, the town of San Juan La Laguna, in Guatemala, has welcomed students from Where There Be Dragons, a cultural immersion program that focuses on responsible and authentic travel that benefits both the traveling students and the local communities they visit. Welcoming us into their homes, the families in San Juan have for years shown incredible generosity and warmth. Students have often fostered such powerful relationships with their homestay families that they have referred to them as their second family and maintained their relationships with them by communicating through Facebook.
As a result of the current coronavirus pandemic, tourism and economic opportunity have completely stopped, leaving hundreds of families in San Juan without income (likely until the coffee growing season begins in October).
Some families are resorting to hanging white flags to show they are starving.
Now that the residents of San Juan are suffering so severely due to the coronavirus pandemic, it is time that we return their generosity by donating to provide food and essential items.
Donations will go to the Centro Maya Project (centromayaproject.org), which has been providing food for about 25 families in San Juan for years. Since the beginning of coronavirus, over 100 other families have requested help in putting food on the table. Food for a family of 5-8 is only about 40 USD per month.
Our goal of raising $3,000 would help provide food to almost 100 families for a month.
Donations will go towards providing emergency relief to families in the form of full or partial food allotments of beans, corn, rice, protein-enriched cereal, salt, oil, fresh vegetables, and powdered milk (incorporating the World Health Organization's recommendations for nutrition), as well as essential vitamins, soap, and toothpaste.
Please consider donating whatever you can-- small donations can still support families for weeks.
The Centro Maya Project has other programs that support the local community in Guatemala.
Click this link to learn more: https://centromayaproject.org/
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