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As history repeats itself, this pretty
little girl, selling her jocotes for a penny, like many other little
girls, is destined for a life of poverty, ignorance, suffering, and
drudgery. She is a Mayan Indian living in the mountains of
Guatemala. She already has cavities, which will never be filled. Her
entire diet consists of black beans and tortillas. She lives in a
one-room house made of rough boards, with a dirt floor, and without
water or electricity. The kitchen is a lean-to with a wood fire; the
bathroom, in the woods. Throughout her life she will never see a
doctor or a dentist. If she sells enough jocotes she will have a
year or two of schooling but she will never read a newspaper or a
book. She will marry a boy from her village in her early teens and
bear many children, some of whom will die of treatable diseases. She
will seldom leave her house, devoting her life entirely to washing,
cooking, and cleaning. Hunger, hard labor, and pain will be her
constant companions. To read more about Mayan Life, click
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There is no country on earth whose majority
population is both well-educated and impoverished. Unfortunately the
education available to the Maya and other poor Guatemalans is wholly
inadequate to the task of providing an education sufficient to raise
them out of poverty. Many, perhaps most, students cannot multiply
and divide, spell, punctuate a sentence, find anything on a map, or
tell you the significance of any date in history earlier than their
own birthday. To read more about the education available to the poor
in Guatemala, click
here.
Since education is the way out of poverty and since they cannot be
educated there, the only solution is to bring them here for
schooling.
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You can change forever the life of a child like this little girl.
Join us in bringing impoverished young Guatemalans to the United States
for schooling. You can make it happen! To see how, click
HOW
TO HELP. For an overview of Mayan History, click
THE
MAYA.
To learn more about Guatemala, click GUATEMALA
and
POVERTY.
To see pictures of the students in GSSG’s program and read their
stories, click GSSG
news.
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