This gift will give a child a 3 month supply of vitamins.  Your gift recipient will receive a keychain from Guatemala and a note explaining how this gift will help the poorest of the poor. 

Families with limited diets, primarily beans and corn, are now benefiting from large fruit and vegetable gardens they have planted in their own backyards!  SewHope has provided seeds, education, and encouragement, but the families have done all the work!  They are now realizing the great benefits of improved nutrition as well as the pride that comes from a bountiful harvest.  

Every 6 months, the children in our program receive deworming medicine and fluoride varnish on their teeth.  They also receive a vitamin every day.  We monitor their growth, test them for anemia, and review their vaccinations.  We work with the health ministry of the Peten to ensure that each child receives the vaccines they need and are entitled to.  Help us expand this program to reach all children throughout the Peten. 

While much of the medical supplies and pharmaceutical medications we provide are donated, we still need to purchase much of those types of items to continue our medical work.  Please consider a donation to help us keep our shelves stocked! 

Through our Kids Against Hunger program, you can provide a starving child with nutritionally complete meals for a year.  The meals are pre-packaged by churches, organizations, and other groups in the Toledo area and sent to Guatemala.  The program helps to meet critical food shortages that occur in times of drought and disaster.  In addition, the program has enabled us to reach the poorest of the poor and to develop trust and long-term solutions to their nutritional and health needs.

The lack of clean water and sanitation facilities (latrines, toilets) is one of the greatest causes of sickness and death in developing countries, yet also one of the simplest and least expensive problems to fix!  SewHope is helping families build simple composting latrines and hand-washing stations to help prevent some of the most common diseases in developing countries such as diarrhea, cholera, and intestinal worms.  Please help us in our efforts to put a composting latrine in every home!

This picture depicts the deplorable state of one of the classrooms in a village school.  You can help us further with a donation that will be used towards not only buildings and infrastructure, but also books, supplies, and importantly teacher support and improvement.  Help us provide a decent learning environment for all children! 

Cervical Cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women in Guatemala.  Tragically, it is one one the easiest cancers to treat if detected early.  SewHope has been leading the way in preventing this deadly disease in the villages we serve. Over 1000 women were screened by Pap tests this year alone and treatment was given to those with precancerous conditions.  SewHope was also able to bring one young mother to the U.S. for life-saving radiation and chemotherapy.  Please consider helping us expand our cervical cancer prevention program to reach all women of the Peten so no one has to die an early death from this preventable disease. 

Without at least a high school education, young people cannot obtain a job that will allow them to leave the cycle of poverty.   The girls in our villages see no chance for this so they often become pregnant at extremely young ages.  These remote villages are unable to provide education beyond the primary level.  We have now developed a program where the children can be transported to a high school each day.  For $500, you can provide a young teen with a year of high school education including uniforms, books and computer access!