La Mision Encontrandome Con Cristo Guatemala Mission

Scholarship program: education is one of the surest ways out of poverty and the organization sees this as another avenue to help the poor in guatemala. The organization pays students' tuition for a year of education, provided the students maintain a certain gpa. This program started out with only one student. The number of students in the program continues to grow each year. Three different levels of education are supported through our scholarship program; high school, trade school, and college. We also assist with their living expenses while attending school if they have to travel outside of the city where they live. Students are required to put in two hundred hours of community service in their local communities, including working with the mission group during the annual mission trip. Our coordinator in guatemala tracks and monitors the students' grades, service hours, and expenses. To keep up with the increased demand of the scholarship program, a new fundraising program was started in 2010. The organization started a wholly owned subsidiary, guatemala mission coffee, llc. This company buys guatemalan coffee from a company in guatemala to help support their local economy. The coffee is shipped to the united states, where our volunteers assist in selling the coffee. All proceeds from coffee sales are used to fund the scholarship program. In 2024, 94 scholarship totaling $57,038 were provided to students attending 17 different educational institutions.

Donations: the organization gives monetary donations to support the work of other organizations int he villages of guatemala, including an orphanage, hogar nuestra se ora de los remedios, a home for abused and neglected girls, and to the congregation of nuns that support this orphanage, congregation de marta y maria, in jalapa, guatemala. We also support some of the local dioceses in these poor areas, such as the diocese of jalapa, guatemala and the diocese of alta verapaz, guatemala.