Our Mission: Children's Charity's mission is to help socially disadvantaged and desparately needy children and their families, considering school education not only a fundamental right of everyone but the basic step for personal and social development.
Children's Charity is a private, non-denominational and independent organisation, uniquely based on volunteering (unpaid) work: 100 % of each donation received is given to our relief projects. All administration and travel costs are payed privately!
What We Do: Children’s Charity not only offers free elementary education, but also provides nutritional food to hundreds of hungry kids, as well as medical care.
Since now, we carried out educational projects for about one thousand Mayan children who live in the rural areas of Guatemala's Highlands. We started our work in 1999 providing financial help to constructing a rural school for 150 students in Chocruz, a small Mayan community. During the past three years we organized and directed- together with the indigenous community of Chocantariy (Momostenango) - the construction of a big concrete school building for 400 students, which was entirely financed by our organization, providing as well electricity, water and fully equipment to the school, the kitchen and the refactory. Every year we give any help they need to the kids, parents and the whole comunity.
Our organization sustains vocational training and offers scholarships to whom wants to continue studying.
Inside the school, we opened a Computer Lab for the elder students.
We offer as well free alphabetization classes to adults - especially to women (in Guatemala, 75% of the female population living in rural areas are illiterate!).
Children's Charity is running also a medical station in the Mayan village of Santiago Zamora Sacatepéquez to offering free medication to every child and its mother, instructing them at the same time about the most important hygienic and nutritional items.
Our association supports as well (in collaboration with other international organizations) a day care center in the town of Jocotenango (Antigua) which offers shelter and education to 160 most disadvantaged children.
In every place we work, we sustain the local traditions and handicraft, trying to connect the workers to the local and international market.
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