Change a Life, Educate a Child

Wilmer is seventeen years old, he lives in San Juan Alotenango, Sacatepéquez, and he studies in the IV Stage at The Scheel Educational Center.  He has six brothers and the mother, who takes care of all of them. They are a very poor family whose only economic support has been the mother who, by doing household chores and working in the countryside, has managed to obtain just enough for the whole family. The father abandoned them a few years ago because he was an alcoholic, was very irresponsible and violent, no one in the family has ever heard of him since then.

In a home visit that our Social Workers at Asocición Nuestros Ahijados did around the area, they detected this family and they decided to help them by providing education to all children. Food is provided to the mother thanks to the "Mothers Club" where she was registered to receive all kind of social benefits. This young man, is very smart and likes to study, he is one of the older brothers.

He wants to finish middle school at the Scheel Center and then study high school and graduate to find a good job opportunity with which he intends to help the mother and her brothers in the economic aspect. He is also a good student, with excellent grades, very respectful and he likes to help his brothers with the tasks and the chores of the house.  In his free time, he enjoys playing soccer with his friends and brothers.

The young man and his family are very grateful for the help they have received from the project, because thanks to this, they have the opportunity to surpass themselves academically. The mother stated that due to lack of resources, she would leave them without studying and everyone would have to go out and work in any kind of jobs to bring some money to the house.  However all of them, and especially the young children are taking advantage of this opportunity to overcome and improve their lives, which since they belong to the program, has changed greatly.