Help Send At-risk Children in Belize to School

These are young people who have never been taught how to dream. They have only known the harsh realities of life, that their parents have to work hard to just provide at least one meal for the day. That there will only be one pair of shoes for the entire year and that a primary school education is all they could ever get.

I saw that look of lost hope in the eyes of one of the standard six class we visited. How excited these kids were when we explained the purpose of our visit to their class. The smiles stretched across their faces only to grow smaller and smaller as Bryan explained the strict criteria that is required to be accepted into our Sponsorship program. Smiles disappeared, being replaced by despair.

My heart was breaking, because for these children, having PathLight come to their school for the first time, was a feeble candle in the wind, but the breeze was getting stronger, and that candle was about to blow out because they felt they could simply not qualify.

There were tears in my eyes and I could feel God pushing me back to stand in front of these students, so I moved back to the front of the class, “Listen, there is a reason we came to your school today. God told us that there are students who need to go to high school and PathLight will be the only help they will be able to find, that is why we are here. We are here to offer you hope, to tell you that it is possible to have a dream, that it is possible to achieve your goals. There are students here, in this room, that will be PathLight students, so don’t give up yet!”  

Hands shot up, asking for applications, the faces of these children lighting up. Today my prayer is very simple but it’s with every bit of hope that is in me “God, please touch the hearts of donors so we may be able to bring hope to as many of these children as possible!”