Mayan Families Poverty Group Provide Mother’s Day Food Baskets At Lake Atitlan

Much help is needed to correct poverty needs in Western Guatemalen Highlands

By Greg Szymanski, JD
April 30, 2010

A poverty help group, based in San Diego and Guatemala called Mayan Families, is asking people to help send food baskets for Mother’s Day to families in need at Lake Atitlan.

In their call for help sent to Save Lake Atitlan Mission at www.savelakeatitlan.com, the group formed in 1995 stated:

In Guatemala a Mothers work is never done. When they are pregnant they very rarely can afford to see a doctor, when they give birth, it is often at home with an untrained midwife, they usually have more pregnancies than their bodies can cope with.

Daily, they often carry either water on their heads or heavy loads of firewood on their backs, walking for long distances, often with a swaddled baby on their bodies and another small child or two by their side. Once home, they chop wood, cook over an open fire, make tortillas by hand while attending to their families needs.
At the end of a long day, going to bed often means sleeping on a woven straw mat on a dirt floor without having had enough food to feed their children or themselves.

This Mothers Day we would like to make life a little happier for them. Let’s support these impoverished Women and their families by donating a Dia de la Madre Food Basket to them.
For $35 you can give a Mothers Day Food Basket and feed a family of 10 or more.
Please consider giving a food basket to a hungry family to share in Semana Santa.

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