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The Children Need Food, Continued Ed, and Our Love

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Hello everyone. Name is Forrest Day. I have served as Co-Founder, Chairman of The Board and International Consult. The organizations name is Guatemalan Educational Outreach or GEO for short. As a Protestant somehow I befriended Father Miguel Alvazures a Priest who was seeing in Lexington, Kentucky Parish at the time. I had worked with a medical team in his home country of Guatemala for several years. Guatemala grew on me from that point and never let go. As a person with a Lean Manufacturing background I would ask myself am I really making a difference “in the long run?” For example, ship down 854 pairs of shoes, great. Six months later it means nothing. It hit me as Father Miguel and I had dinner together one night. My wife was there and she said she could see the stars in our eyes. A SCHOOL. Let them become their own doctors, English Interpreters, Bankers. Give these kids a quality English Immersion School and let them become who they want to be. Not trapped on the side of the mountain 12 hours a day for the equivalent of four US Dollar. We did it! We have a pre-k through 2nd Grade School. We want to add another grade. We’ve got about 100 children now. We went from an abandon house to now owning a house and a three classroom building. Our USA teachers come from mostly Kentucky, it some have been from other Southern States. We need help with all that is going on with COVID-19. The Guatemalan Government feels confident we can reopen in January, 2021. But we are missing our consistent donors so we need to expand our base. It is such a wonderful school that is even monitored by the local government. We want to teach each child to speak fluently in English because the jobs are there. All data shows a shortage in call centers, banking, tourism, and business. We are asking these simple things: 1. Will you help feed our starving children? 2. Will you help us educate these children? 3. Will you help us teach the children to dream? Join us at TEAMGEOKY.ORG If we don’t raise $50,000 we will have lost four years of hard work in the States and Guatemala. It will be a heartbreak for our USA Board and our Guatemalan Board, and 100 small children.

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Forrest Day
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Lexington, KY

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