A group of students and adults pose for a photo in front of a yellow wall featuring a large circular school emblem.

At the school in Paxmaramac, Guatemala, meals are prepared in a temporary shelter with two corrugated-metal walls, a dirt floor and a metal roof. Rain can make the space unusable. Dust and animals enter through the open sides, and when the shelter cannot be used, neighbors make room in their own kitchens. School director Cesar Alfredo Tzun Ixcoy, known as Profe Cesar, wants to build a permanent kitchen. Parents and other community members will provide the construction labor. Cesar will oversee the work, with First Things Foundation Field Workers Sebastian Bess and Liam Feltman helping purchase materials and arrange transport. This is the next chapter in a relationship that has continued across several First Things field workers. Earlier projects helped the school obtain doors, windows and computers. In 2022, the community worked with First Things and Courts for Kids to complete a sports court. Residents later paid for paint and lighting themselves, and further support helped the school purchase a sewing machine and begin classes. Now the community is turning its attention to a permanent place to prepare school meals. Our $11,760 goal includes $9,800 for the kitchen project and $1,960 to support First Things Foundation’s Guatemala field site. Donations will help cover construction materials and transport for the kitchen, alongside that field-site support. Give to help Profe Cesar and the families of Paxmaramac build their school’s kitchen.

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