Love Guatemala Blog

  • Focus on the Feeding Center

    This month of November, we would really like to highlight and focus on what is being done in our feeding center! As you may know, this past year and a half have been very different in our feeding center program, as well as the other classes and programs at Love Guatemala. Previously, our feeding center…

  • Passing Out Grades

    This past Saturday, we gave out grades for the end of the trimester. The most exciting part of it was that we were able to have the parents and students come in person to collect grades. It is such a big step because before now, we were not able to have them come in. The…

  • Rosa’s Story

    Something that we always feel so blessed by is working with the kids from the feeding center. It is such a privilege for us to be able to see them and be a part of their lives. Here is a story from one of our kids, sweet Rosa, that has been coming to the feeding…

  • Leadership and Spiritual Growth

    We recently started a wonderful leadership training classes with material from John Maxwell. We are overjoyed to see how it affects the teachers  in their personal growth. With each new class and program, we know that the teachers are becoming better equipped to not only teach their students, but also be great leaders in their…

  • From Primary to Middle School

    Something that we have loved about our Basicos program(or middle school) is that we now have a place for our students from our primary school to continue on to afterwards. Before having Basicos available to our students, we had to have the students look at other schools to continue on with their education. Now, offering…

  • September is Basicos Month!

    September is Basicos month! The Basicos program has been such a wonderful addition to our classes in Love Guatemala. It began just months before the pandemic started so the first year went quite different than we had planned, but we are grateful for how well it has been going. We currently have 68 students, all…

  • Antonio’s Story

    The feeding center has always been such a special program to us. It allows us to not only provide a meal for kids from the community, but also to get to know them and their families. One of our kids, whose name is Antonio, is 10 years old and has struggled with malnutrition. His family…

  • Marielos’s Story

    Marielos is one of our star graduating students. She is an example of a student who had a dream and worked her hardest to accomplish it. Marielos started studying English on her own at the age of 10. She became fascinated with the language and decided to pursue it. It began with listening to songs…

  • Staff Devotions

    Among other things, one thing that we have tried to keep consistent has been our weekly staff devotionals. This has been something that we as a staff have been doing long before the pandemic had started. So as the stress and panic that occurred when everything was first locked down, we wanted to make sure…

  • Our English Graduates

      This year, we do not have as many English graduates as usual, but none the less we are very proud of them. We have two ladies who will be graduating this year and they have been working very hard to improve each day. When the students start out, they have a very limited knowledge…