In this blog, you will meet young entrepreneurs in rural Colombia who are turning classroom lessons into thriving micro‑businesses that boost family income, restore dignity and open doors to long-term opportunity. You will see how skills training, seed capital and spiritual encouragement are helping them move from surviving to thriving, and how your support for […]
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Where Hope Grows: Fighting Hunger With Fresh Food for Children
In this blog, you will step into a children’s home in Honduras and a small farming community in El Salvador to see how greenhouses are transforming empty plates into nourishing meals. You will learn how vegetables grown on-site are providing fresh food for children and strengthening their daily diets, how families are building food security […]
Standing Together Against Child Malnutrition in Guatemala
In this blog, you will step into the communities of Chuaxan and La Merced in Guatemala and see how local feeding centers are providing life-changing nutrition and support for children and their families. You will learn why child malnutrition is so severe in this region, how mothers and staff work together each day to prepare […]
Preventing Childhood Malnutrition Across Latin America and the Caribbean
Why Children in Latin America and the Caribbean Face Malnutrition and How You Can Help Malnutrition harms children in lasting ways. It slows growth, weakens the immune system, and makes learning difficult. Across Latin America and the Caribbean, many families face extreme poverty that leaves their children without the nutrition they need. Food For The […]
What can caring people do to provide medical care for an innocent child?
In Guatemala, the chances of survival were slim for a sweet baby named Marcela because of ectopia cordis, a rare condition in which a baby is born with a heart partially or entirely outside the chest cavity. Only 8 of every 1 million babies have ectopia cordis, and 90 percent die within three days of […]
Tiny Greeter, Huge Welcome
Every time the front door opened at a rural nutrition center in Guatemala that I was visiting with our team, 4-year-old Dervy marched right up to each visitor. I watched as he smiled broadly, spread his little arms in a sweeping motion across the entryway and then gleefully shouted, “¡Bienvenido!”, the Spanish word for “welcome.” […]