Guatemala

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Guatemala City (Boystown)
Guatemala City (Girlstown)
Our Children’s Villages for Boys and for Girls in Guatemala provide live-in middle and high school education to boys and girls coming from the poorest of the poor, whose ages range from 12 to 18. The Sisters of Mary also run a medical clinic here, which provides free outpatient medical treatment, medicine and food to the poor.

         Quick facts about Guatemala
  • Education is the only hope for children to break free of poverty
  • 23% of children under five are underweight
  • 49% of children under five suffer from stunted growth
  • 14% of population lives on less than $1 a day (from: unicef.org)
  • 31.9% live on less than $2 a day – over 4 million people (From: infoplease.com)
Just Look at her smile! And with good reason.
She has a chance to escape a life of suffering.

Guatemala City-Zona 13 (Girlstown)
  • 1 building for classrooms, dormitories and an indoor gymnasium
  • 1 four-story building with classrooms and dormitories for girls
  • 1 workshop
  • 1 soccer field
  • 1 two-story medical and dental clinics for poor outpatients
  • 1 three-story building for intensive technical high school
  • 1 day care center with capacity for 60 toddlers providing a safe place to play and learn while their mothers work
  • 1 sewage treatment plant
  • 1 graduates' dormitory

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Guatemala City-Zona 9 (Boystown)
  • 1 three story building with classrooms and dormitories for boys
  • 1 two-story building with indoor gymnasium and workshop for vocational training
  • 1 automechanics workshop
  • 1 four-story building for an intensive high school
  • 1 library, electronics workshop and auditorium building
  • 2 football courts
  • 1 sewage treatment plant

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