RGP August 26th
There will be no RGP meeting on this date.
RGP meeting, September 2nd, 3pm
Creating Opportunities for Guatemalans
will be presented by Vicki Horsfield, Executive Director
will be presented by Vicki Horsfield, Executive Director
In April of 2014, Vicki Horsfield started a Canadian and US registered charity along with a young Guatemalan man who has a heart to serve. He himself was sponsored to go to school and he was the only one of his 7 siblings to graduate from high school. Our purpose is to educate Guatemalans as a means to a better future. Our charity, called Creating Opportunities for Guatemalans, provides sponsorship to children of families living below the poverty line to ensure that they have the supplies they need to attend school. Our organization provides these children with an after-school educational support program where they are able to do their homework under supervision and with assistance. Because the Guatemalan school system is very poor, we also provide additional teaching time, with a focus on critical thinking. In a country that has one of the highest rates of illiteracy, we provide literacy classes to adults. We teach vocational skills to adults who never had the opportunity to go to school, thus enabling them to procure jobs that pay a decent-living wage. We teach English classes to both children and adults to provide them with a much needed skill in the growing tourist industry.
