tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68008660269670165262024-03-14T07:43:45.892-07:00FA 21Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11075435295277180387noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6800866026967016526.post-46758800649312364862011-11-30T19:08:00.001-08:002011-12-13T13:35:34.054-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>This family consists of only a grandmother and a granddaughter, Andrea and Claudia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a beautiful video about Claudia and the impact education has had on her life that you can see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAAqqSByt8w&feature=player_embedded">here</a>.</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <strong>Their most pressing need is to have their home rebuilt.</strong></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Claudia Jona, 12, was born July 23, 1999.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her student number is 812 and she will be in 3<sup>rd</sup> grade in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Claudia’s lost her parents when she was young. Her father left the family and has never given support for Claudia. Her mother committed suicide after the birth of Claudia's half-sister. The baby was given to her father’s family to raise as Andrea could not take care of both children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are no longer in touch with her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Claudia now lives with her grandmother Andrea, who is 67 years old and blind in one eye.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the interview Claudia sat on the edge of her chair, almost in between her chair and Andrea’s, so she could be close to her grandmother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Andrea tries to sell tamales when she is feeling well enough to work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Claudia works making tortillas in <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sololá </span>on Sundays and earns $1.33 (10Q).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Andrea has pains in her left leg, her neck is stiff and her eye hurts her badly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Claudia has a chronic cough, especially bad at night, and it takes her a long time to fall asleep because of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They cannot afford to see a doctor for these maladies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Andrea and Claudia are in Mayan Families’ elderly care/orphan care program in San Jorge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both receive one hot meal a day and often that is the only food they will eat that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mayan Families tries to give them other food donations when something is available as neither work regularly and so there is no income to buy such necessities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Claudia spends most afternoons at the Mayan Families office, playing with the children there and socializing with the volunteers and visitors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Andrea had three children but only one is still living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He provides no support for his mother or Claudia and in fact he and his wife are quite mean to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Andrea has to pass through her son’s house every time she leaves or returns to her home and her daughter-in-law always treats her horribly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Their house is one room made of adobe with a lamina roof in San Jorge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have no electricity or water connected to their home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whenever they need water they have to walk very far into the center of town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strike>They have a water filter that is only a year old but the candela (the filter itself) has broken and needs to be replaced.</strike><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">They have a water filter and a new replacement in December 2011.</span> </span>They do not have a pila (large cement sink).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have one bed with a mattress that they share and two blankets that are in bad shape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have an Onil stove that was given to them by Mayan Families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">They have a new table and two chairs so they no longer have to sit upon the floor to eat. </span></span>Their house leaks a lot in the rainy season and it is hard to get up to the house on the tiny steep footpath that leads to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally the whole house is unsteady and needs to be rebuilt with cement blocks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Their most urgent need is a new home. Mayan Families is looking into how to build a home for them while also protecting them from the bully uncle. It may be best to rent them a room for a while but it is difficult to find rental space in San Jorge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">$118<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pila</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">$40/mo<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Sponsor for Andrea’s place in the elderly care program</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">$80/mo<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>Rental of a new room with committed sponsor(s) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Funds to build a new house including the connection of water and electricity</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strike>$45 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Water filter replacement</strike> <span style="color: #e06666;">Thank you! Dec 2011</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strike>$35 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Leather shoes for Claudia</strike> <span style="color: #e06666;">Thank you! Dec 2011</span></span></span><br />
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button below to go to Mayan Families' donation page. Enter the donation amount
in the Family Aid field. Enter <strong>FA21</strong> for the Family Name.
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mayan Families<br />PO Box
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