The 12/08/12 blog, "Training Mayan Girls to be Leaders" included a not-so-subtle request on my part for readers to contribute to Sister Marife' Hellman's Guatemalan school for Mayan girls.
If you contributed to the Holy Mary of the Most Precious Blood School, you may be interested in reading the following "thank-you" email I received from Sister Marife'. The letter contains information about several of the young Mayan ladies in the photographs.
If you did not contribute but would like to do so, please scroll down to the 12/08/12 blog for details.
Dear Ron,
Thanks you so much. Your information is all true and very well said. The pictures are from the first year when the community council CPPS had recommended that I just start with 9 young women. I'm sure glad I listened to them. Now, six years later, there are 30 young women.
When your sister, Joyce, comes in Feb. we are going back to that Mayan ruin where the fotos you show, were taken. Maybe Joyce can take a foto for you showing the girls that will be studying there at that time.
Of the young women shown in the foto, one is now a bilingual teacher in an Q'eq'chi village, one is working in a pharmacy, one is studying Psychology and working two afternoons weekly in a clinic in her village. Three of the girls returned home and married very young, however, one of the three did finish her studies.
Thanks for what you are doing for the girls. Later on I can write you more specifically how the funds are used, if you wish.
Your sister's sister, Marife
Thanks to all who have contributed to this worthy endeavor.
No comments:
Post a Comment