We work with families all the time, and know so many fathers who want the best for their children, and make enormous sacrifices to keep their kids in school, put food on the table, and keep a roof over their heads.  Guatemalan fathers are hard working, often rise well before sunrise to make the long trek to begin the back breaking work in the fields. Some fathers climb into the hills to collect heavy bundles of firewood, others break rocks, dig sand out of rivers, try to repair their homes with very little materials and just their hands.   

We have known fathers who build beds for their children from tree trunks and branches. 

Others who carry their children for miles to get medical help for them. Who keep working when they know they are too sick and it will be dangerous for their health. We have fathers who are blind, fathers who are disabled, fathers who have been widowed and now raise children alone,  grandfathers who keep working long after they should retire, just to feed the grandchildren they are bringing up. We have one father who has had his legs amputated at the knee, he puts pads on his knees and goes to work every day in the fields, walking on his stumps, to keep his family fed. They all keep going because they want a better life for their children.

Men who cannot read and write, who never had the chance to go to school, struggle to be able to send their children to computer classes because they know this is the future for their children.

 

We have many mothers also, who had to take on the role of both mother and father. They all have the common hope and desire for their children to have a better life than they have had. To have enough food to eat, to receive an education, to rise above the level of poverty the parents have endured. 

 

This Father's Day, please consider fulfilling one of these amazing dad's  most basic wish, by sending a basket full of food that will keep him and his family fed, at least for this one special day (and in many cases longer).  With your help, we can ensure that dads here, just like dads at home, get a much-deserved break from their worries.

 

To give a Father's Day Food Basket, please go to Donate Now, and enter $35 in the 'Other' box, and "Father's Day Food Basket" in the details.  Thank you!

If you would like to give this gift in honor of someone ....please let us know all of the relevant information by sending us an e-mail to:

dwight@mayanfamilies.org

and we will be happy to send them an email and put it on our website in the IN HONOR section.

 

(You can include a student number, family aid number, or the number of an elderly person in the 'Details' too if you know who you want your basket to go to--just be sure to put "FA" before family aid numbers and "A" before elderly numbers so they don't get confused with students!)