Turning Lemons into Lemonade!
As we roll up our sleeves, God’s resources grow – providing for everyone. Together, we turn adversity into opportunity. Let’s join forces in making lemonade out of lemons. We are stronger together and can make a sweeter future for all.
Give the gift of shoes, vitamins, gang prevention, family care, and more!
In 2024, Give the Gift of a Sweeter Future!
Give Shoes and
School Supplies
$45
Provide a child with a new pair of shoes made by Don Otto, a local shoemaker, plus six months’ worth of school supplies. Every donation for shoes and school supplies (up to 800) will be matched by Guatemalan donors to also provide a Christmas outfit for Alcance students at all four centers.
Give Vitamins
$75
Provide essential, daily vitamins to one class for one month. These are chewable children’s vitamins with iron, which children regularly request “so that I can grow up to be big and strong!”
Give Food
$100
Provide an entire month of meals for FOUR families. This gift provides crucial nutrition to families facing pressing needs for nutritious meals.
Give Family Care
$200
Empower a staff member and mentor to serve a family directly each month. Families are able to pray with and receive counsel from trusted voices.
Give Wages
$600
Give one Guatemalan staff member a month’s salary. The staff daily risks their lives as they instruct, disciple, and prepare the children to live full lives.
Give to NextGen
$1,200
Help 2 scholars finish high school and stay out of gangs.
Support Emotional Health
Provide trauma-informed intervention and care when it is needed most.
Imprisonment, gang violence, and extortion create vulnerable communities in Guatemala City. However, families are resilient and learn to trust again when they receive the right resources and intervention designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. With your help, we can impact the next generation.
Give Emotional Care
$2,500
Empower our entire team of mentors and psychologists to help families with trauma-informed intervention and care.
NEW FUTURES, FULL LIVES
Holistic support is in reach for families and children in Guatemala City’s poorest and most dangerous neighborhoods.
El Carmen Center is named for the neighborhood it serves, a red zone filled with gang activity, both there and in the larger area surrounding it – Santa Catarina Pinula.
Most families in this neighborhood don’t have formal jobs but work as day-laborers, earning $7 per day, which they often stretch to feed four people or more.
One of the biggest challenges in this neighborhood is the extortion of marginalized families.
Through a partnership with Lemonade International, Asociación Comunitaria Alcance expanded enrollment at the El Carmen Center, and now serves 170 children. Families have the opportunity to receive daily, nutritious, hot meals rich in protein, carbohydrates and vegetables. Students receive spiritual, academic, and emotional support. And parents are regularly encouraged, instructed, and empowered through monthly Parenting Classes. Many teachers receive only a small stipend for their work, but they continue to volunteer as part-time or full-time team members because of their love for the community!
A gift of $14,000 provides all of the support and resources included in our gift catalog for an entire neighborhood for one month.
Adopt a Neighborhood
$14,000
Provide all of the support and resources included in our gift catalog to an neighborhood for a month.
Help us reach the families and children in the poorest neighborhoods of
Guatemala City.
We are committed to honor your generosity and use your donation in the most effective way possible. Donations will be used
to provide assistance where needed most as we work to help
the families and children of Guatemala City.
All donations are tax-deductible.