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The Gift of a Chicken

Posted on November 27, 2023

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday, and most likely your inbox is being filled with messages from charities with suggestions on how to participate. We also want to share an exciting, high-impact Giving Tuesday project that can be described in just one word: CHICKENS. LWB’s founder, Amy Eldridge, and our Managing Director of Guatemala, Julia Bennett, just […]

20 Years of Hope: Janelle

Posted on June 8, 2023

Fourteen-year-old Janelle’s background story is far too common in the poor, rural areas of Guatemala. Her mother abandoned the family several years ago, leaving Janelle in the care of her impoverished grandmother. Although Janelle had no access to education for three full years, she dreamt of being able to return to school to improve her […]

Empower Me Teen: Melody

Posted on March 24, 2023

The Empower Me Teen Program is a lifeline for girls in the poorest regions of Guatemala. Country-wide, records show that only 60 percent of girls will finish primary school, 20 percent will complete secondary school, and only 10 percent will go on to study at a university. Numbers are even more dire for rural, indigenous […]

Empowering Girls in Guatemala

Posted on March 22, 2023

Every day, girls around the world are faced with challenges that hinder their empowerment and growth. Sometimes, these challenges are deeply rooted in gender discrimination. While society may tell girls that they are less capable than boys or men, programs for empowering girls provide the resources for them to overcome barriers and realize their full […]

Empower Me Teen: Kathryn

Posted on March 20, 2023

This week, we are working to raise funds to allow 120 vulnerable girls in Guatemala to participate in our Empower Me teen program. Due to poverty and limited resources, many teenage Guatemalan girls are sadly unable to complete their educations. Girls like Kathryn can face a lifetime of unemployment, with no safe environment in which […]

LWB Celebrates 20 Years of Hope!

Posted on January 17, 2023

A very special anniversary is taking place this week. Twenty years ago, on January 19th, I visited my youngest daughter’s orphanage in China for the very first time. What I didn’t know then as I stepped into that eerily silent facility filled with hundreds of abandoned children is that my life would be forever changed.

The Final Day of our Guatemala Cleft Trip

Posted on December 10, 2022

Greetings from lovely, colorful Antigua on the last day of our 2022 Guatemala Cleft Trip. It is always bittersweet to say a final goodbye to the families we have come to know and care about so deeply, but it was time for them to begin their long journeys back to their villages. When a shy […]

Guatemala Cleft Trip: Day Five

Posted on December 9, 2022

Hola once more from the beautiful town of Antigua, Guatemala! Today is the last full day of surgeries on our Guatemala Cleft Trip. For the past two days, we have been able to run three operating rooms. Before we tell you some of the stories of the children today, let’s head over to morning rounds […]

Guatemala Cleft Trip: Day Four

Posted on December 8, 2022

Hola from the 2022 LWB Cleft Mission to Antigua, Guatemala! We’ll dive right into morning rounds so you can see some of the beautiful children you met yesterday on our Day Three blog. First up in today’s review of our Guatemala cleft trip is little Froylan, who definitely wins “fastest bounce back ever.” Just one […]

Guatemala Cleft Trip: Day Three

Posted on December 7, 2022

Buenos días from the beautiful town of Antigua, Guatemala. Our team has fallen in love with the warm hospitality of everyone here, so definitely add it to your travel bucket list! Our cleft team has noticed that there is something extra wonderful about walking to the hospital while looking at the magnificent Agua Volcano. The […]

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