Change a Life, Educate a Child

The girl entered the year 2018 to the second grade of primary school, Centro Soñador. She is originally from Jocotenango, Sacatepéquez, lives with her mother and uncles.

The girl had been in a temporary home in 2017 due to a series of circumstances that led her to that instance. The father of a family is an alcoholic person with emotional problems, and the mother also had problems of alcoholism and neglected the girl and her two children. The father of the family is currently imprisoned for an attempted murder and robbery that he once was committing while intoxicated and was caught by the local authorities in the moment he was harming them. As for the mother, as a result of this situation, she had self-esteem problems that led her to physically mistreat the girl and her brothers; she took refuge in alcoholism and in friendships that would not lead her in a good way.

On a certain day, some anonymous person of the neighbors denounced the authorities (PGN) the situation that was lived in the house, so they went to verify the situation and observed that the children were locked in the house, with padlock in the door, they were careless and poorly fed, so they decided to take them off temporarily to the mother.

The mother managed the necessary procedures to recover the parental rights of her children; however, she was conditioned to receive all kinds of therapies, both psychological and alcoholism, to meet the requirements of recovering their children.

After she recovered them, she wanted to enroll her daughter somewhere that would give her a good academic education, as well as seek help for herself. Thanks to a brother she knew about Nuestros Ahijados and the work done there, she looked for ways to register her daughter, for which she was accepted and helped with the benefits offered by the Association. Currently, the mother receives psychological and medical help monthly along with the girl and the little brothers. They also receive help with clothes, shoes, school supplies and receive help from Verduras on behalf of the Mothers Club program. She also receives help and advice from the Legal Department since the legal process continues, she is still monitored by the State authorities to verify that she is able to continue caring for her children.