Volcano Disaster Relief for Guatemala
Tax deductible
Dear Friends,
Many of you donated to the Nagata-Yamauchi Educational Fund (NYEF) in 2018, to support volcano eruption victims in Guatemala. We later explained to you via GoFundMe and Facebook that we had to consider diverting donations to support another project and offered to return your gifts. Incredibly and for which we are forever grateful, nobody asked to be refunded! Because of your generosity and vision, and along with Guatemalan field support, we successfully created a solar-powered computer center for five isolated indigenous Guatemalan Mayan villages in 2019 (pictured below).
The center continues to teach young students how to use computer technology. More information and photos of this extraordinary effort are in NYEF’s Facebook page (NYEF Facebook Link ). Little did we know, our new campaign for all of Central America, explained below, would sprout from this, its initial unofficial project. First, a short contextual description…
An Ugly Reality
The overwhelming majority of immigrants flee from Central America because they are powerless to force their governments to collect and spend public funds on schools, hospitals, public utilities, public safety, their legal systems, and other programs that would benefit their countries as a whole. In this region, politicians are controlled by the elite business sectors, Armies, and illicit interests that put them in power; they “work” (i.e., steal public funds, receive bribes, etc.) for themselves instead of for the public good. Those who speak out against corruption and criminality, or simply refuse to participate are most often targeted for death.
The tragic results are what you see, hear, and read about, there and at our border.
Peaceful, Positive Changes, Not Palliative “Walls,” Illegal Detention Centers, and Immoral “Safe Third Country” Policies…
Since its formal inception in 2005, our motto has been “Using Knowledge to Improve the Human Condition.” At no other time has it become more relevant than during the past few years.
We, therefore, announce a permanent funding campaign via GoFundMe that will be continually renewed for as long as it takes to create as many computer centers as possible, with support from donors like you.
Indeed, we do not consider this a “charity,” “alms for the poor,” or short-term relief effort.
We call our funding celebration, “Cyber-Empowerment for People in Central America” (CEPCA) – arming people with information and communications resources to change their world.
- Our goal: To create as many public computer centers or points of computer access as possible in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, to...
- Our rationale: …empower disadvantaged populations with access to information, education, and communications with the outside world and amongst themselves, so that...
- Our vision: …links are created across Central America between organizations and communities that enable them to work together to achieve peaceful, positive changes for a better world within the region.
Nature of the CEPCA Campaign
We shall announce and explain a different individual fundraising campaign every 4-6 months for a project that fits into our program. Each new effort will be unique with its own needs.
Given this is a long-term program, made up of individual projects, we implore you to understand when you see their GoFundMe campaigns that our goal is not to make you feel we’re unthankful or dissatisfied with what you previously donated. Our program of creating multiple computer centers simply requires a separate appeal for donations for every proposed center.
Our First Official CEPCA Project is:
Empowering Communities in Honduras: Two women are murdered every 24 hours in Honduras – the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman, according to the U.N. Only 3% of these crimes are ever investigated, even fewer murderers are brought to justice in a country deemed to be one of the most dangerous in the world.
Thus, a courageous group of women called Mesa de Indignadas de El Progreso (MIP, Table of the Aggrieved of El Progreso) needs 6-8 computers, a printer, photocopier, projector, air conditioner, Internet access, and software for a local library, located in the middle of “gang” territory. The library, with its cultural, social, and human rights advocacy programs – supported by computers – will help MIP organize and educate the young and the old, keep them away from violence, and allow them to communicate with the world and struggle for peaceful changes in Honduras.
Another computer center for indigenous Mayans in Guatemala will be erected later this year or early next year! We’re still looking for contacts in El Salvador
Conclusion
We appreciate consideration from past and new donors. As a 501(c)(3) foundation, all donations are tax-deductible. Not one penny is spent on our salaries or expenses to create and administrate this and other centers. We spend personal money on project implementation, including visits to each one.
Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, doubts, or suggestions! Thank you for any donations – none are too small or too big!!
Sincerely yours,
Paul Yamauchi, Ph.D. – Executive Director, NYEF
Gloria Garcia, M.S. – Member, Board of Director
NYEF Tax ID: 36-4411120
NYEF
c/o Paul and Gloria Yamauchi
5220 Oakton Street, unit 410
Skokie, IL. 60077
Many of you donated to the Nagata-Yamauchi Educational Fund (NYEF) in 2018, to support volcano eruption victims in Guatemala. We later explained to you via GoFundMe and Facebook that we had to consider diverting donations to support another project and offered to return your gifts. Incredibly and for which we are forever grateful, nobody asked to be refunded! Because of your generosity and vision, and along with Guatemalan field support, we successfully created a solar-powered computer center for five isolated indigenous Guatemalan Mayan villages in 2019 (pictured below).
The center continues to teach young students how to use computer technology. More information and photos of this extraordinary effort are in NYEF’s Facebook page (NYEF Facebook Link ). Little did we know, our new campaign for all of Central America, explained below, would sprout from this, its initial unofficial project. First, a short contextual description…
An Ugly Reality
The overwhelming majority of immigrants flee from Central America because they are powerless to force their governments to collect and spend public funds on schools, hospitals, public utilities, public safety, their legal systems, and other programs that would benefit their countries as a whole. In this region, politicians are controlled by the elite business sectors, Armies, and illicit interests that put them in power; they “work” (i.e., steal public funds, receive bribes, etc.) for themselves instead of for the public good. Those who speak out against corruption and criminality, or simply refuse to participate are most often targeted for death.
The tragic results are what you see, hear, and read about, there and at our border.
Peaceful, Positive Changes, Not Palliative “Walls,” Illegal Detention Centers, and Immoral “Safe Third Country” Policies…
Since its formal inception in 2005, our motto has been “Using Knowledge to Improve the Human Condition.” At no other time has it become more relevant than during the past few years.
We, therefore, announce a permanent funding campaign via GoFundMe that will be continually renewed for as long as it takes to create as many computer centers as possible, with support from donors like you.
Indeed, we do not consider this a “charity,” “alms for the poor,” or short-term relief effort.
We call our funding celebration, “Cyber-Empowerment for People in Central America” (CEPCA) – arming people with information and communications resources to change their world.
- Our goal: To create as many public computer centers or points of computer access as possible in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, to...
- Our rationale: …empower disadvantaged populations with access to information, education, and communications with the outside world and amongst themselves, so that...
- Our vision: …links are created across Central America between organizations and communities that enable them to work together to achieve peaceful, positive changes for a better world within the region.
Nature of the CEPCA Campaign
We shall announce and explain a different individual fundraising campaign every 4-6 months for a project that fits into our program. Each new effort will be unique with its own needs.
Given this is a long-term program, made up of individual projects, we implore you to understand when you see their GoFundMe campaigns that our goal is not to make you feel we’re unthankful or dissatisfied with what you previously donated. Our program of creating multiple computer centers simply requires a separate appeal for donations for every proposed center.
Our First Official CEPCA Project is:
Empowering Communities in Honduras: Two women are murdered every 24 hours in Honduras – the most dangerous place in the world to be a woman, according to the U.N. Only 3% of these crimes are ever investigated, even fewer murderers are brought to justice in a country deemed to be one of the most dangerous in the world.
Thus, a courageous group of women called Mesa de Indignadas de El Progreso (MIP, Table of the Aggrieved of El Progreso) needs 6-8 computers, a printer, photocopier, projector, air conditioner, Internet access, and software for a local library, located in the middle of “gang” territory. The library, with its cultural, social, and human rights advocacy programs – supported by computers – will help MIP organize and educate the young and the old, keep them away from violence, and allow them to communicate with the world and struggle for peaceful changes in Honduras.
Another computer center for indigenous Mayans in Guatemala will be erected later this year or early next year! We’re still looking for contacts in El Salvador
Conclusion
We appreciate consideration from past and new donors. As a 501(c)(3) foundation, all donations are tax-deductible. Not one penny is spent on our salaries or expenses to create and administrate this and other centers. We spend personal money on project implementation, including visits to each one.
Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, doubts, or suggestions! Thank you for any donations – none are too small or too big!!
Sincerely yours,
Paul Yamauchi, Ph.D. – Executive Director, NYEF
Gloria Garcia, M.S. – Member, Board of Director
NYEF Tax ID: 36-4411120
NYEF
c/o Paul and Gloria Yamauchi
5220 Oakton Street, unit 410
Skokie, IL. 60077
Organizer
Paul Yamauchi
Organizer
Skokie, IL
Nagata-Yamauchi Educational Fund
Beneficiary