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Marcelino Ajuchán Xico, comes from Patzicia in the department of Chimaltenango. He is 25 years old and is currently enrolled in the second year of Systems Engineering. Although he comes from a very humble family, his parents have worked hard to provide all of their six children with an education and all six of them have graduated from high school. The father works as a mason and the mother raises small animals in order to contribute to the family income. Marcelino is the only child who has continued his studies at the university level. He began his studies in 2007 and worked half time in order to pay his own expenses but he was unable to continue and dropped out of school in 2008 for lack of funds. He was unable to study in 2009 but he learned about our program and applied for help. Now, in 2010 he is returning to his program in Systems Engineering. Marcellino has a lot of potential as a leader. He is currently part of an association of university students in his town that is trying to help other young people enter the university by providing them with tutoring and orientation. We hope that with our support he will be able to better focus on his studies and accomplish his goals with higher grades and greater success.

Angela Nathali Moran Chen is a 19 year old student in her second year at the national Nursing school in Coban.  Her family lives near the school and Angela is able to live at home and take a local bus or even walk to school.  Her father is university educated and works as a middle school teacher.  They are wealthier than most of our families and ordinarily would be able to pay her expenses in school.

Two circumstances have forced them to ask for our help.  The first is that all three of the sisters in the family are currently studying at the high school or university level.  The second is that because the father served as the co-signer of a loan, he is now having the payments deducted from his salary.  Our small contribution of Q200 ($25) a month plus a few additional payments for uniforms and equipment make it possible for Angela to continue with her education despite her family financial set back.

 

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Milton Rocael Manchamé Arroyo

Milton is a 21 year old student from La Libertad in the department of el Petén. This department is the largest in Guatemalan and encompasses many large tropical forests and important archeological sites such as Tikal. The majority of its inhabitants are very poor as it is difficult to bring their crops to market. Milton’s life has been very difficult. His parents divorced when he was 5 years old and both of his parents started new lives with new partners.

Milton lived with his mother for a short time but he was soon rejected by her and her new husband and he went to live with an uncle. Here too his life was difficult, not only did he have to work long hours in the fields, he was treated as “less than” his cousins. When he finished primary school his uncle told him that he couldn’t continue to study and he had to take a low paying job in a near-by finca. He had always been an excellent student and luckily for him several of his teachers raised money to allow him to continue studying. Unfortunately this help didn’t last for long but when Milton learned of some nuns who ran a boarding school for poor children in Guatemala City, the teachers helped him to complete the application. He was accepted and completed his high school education in the capitol.


Milton is now working as a bank teller in Guatemala City and with our help has begun his career in Business Administration at a Jesuit university. Milton is paying for his own room and board and in the first year received a 50% scholarship from the university and borrowed money from Progresa to pay the rest of his tuition. We are pleased for him that after his first semester his grades were so good that the university raised his scholarship to 75% of his tuition. He is very intelligent and we are sure he will do well in business administration because in addition to his intelligence we have found him to be very open and honest.