Educating underserved children in Maya communities in Guatemala

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Sacred Heart

TEACH started to support this site in 2014. In 2019, TEACH is budgeting total funding for the site of $4,000 allocated to the support of girls in residence at the site and attending secondary schools.

This splendid residence was built with funds provided by an Italian NGO. It can accommodate up to 60 girls from villages too small to support secondary education. By living here, they can attend the appropriate secondary schools in Quirigua and Los Amates. The residence is operated by missionaries of the Order of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, who provide mentoring and emotional support. On addition to attending school, the girls do all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, and develop skills in crocheting and embroidering table runners and purses.

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The girls who live at the Sacred Hearts residence prepared a song to welcome the TEACH group.

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The girls are proud of the craftwork. They design and sew beautiful table runners, do weaving, and sew purses.

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TEACH Board members with the girls who live at the Sacred Hearts residence and Sister Lorena and Sister Karla, who direct the residence.

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View from the roof of the residence.

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The girls reading the holy cards and checking out the necklaces they received as a gift from a TEACH Board Member

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TEACH presented a 2015 spanish dictionary to each student to use in their studies and a plaque that shows that the residence is a TEACH-sponsored site.

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Each girl introduced herself to the TEACH team and then received a small gift.