Christmas Tamale Baskets for Guatemala
Christmas Tamale Food Baskets!
It is Christmas Tamale Food Basket time again! Tis the Season for Giving Food!
Christmas Food Basket Time!
IT IS THE SEASON FOR SHARING.
At midnight on Christmas Eve 2005, two of Mayan Families (an NGO in Panajachel, Guatemala ) sponsored students went door to door hoping someone would give them a tamale to eat.
This is the traditional meal at Christmas in Guatemala. Their single mother could not afford to buy the ingredients to make Tamales.
When they found out about this they wondered how many other families could not afford to celebrate Christmas and how many other children were sad and hungry at this time of the year.
It turned out there were a lot of people who could not afford to celebrate Christmas.
In 2006 they started the Christmas Tamale Basket Program. They gave out 215 baskets of food. In 2007 they gave out 650 baskets. In 2008 we gave out more than 1,000. In 2009 they gave out approximately 1,600 Christmas Baskets of Food! In 2010, probably because of the economy, the count was down to 1380. Many families had to be turned away.
This year has been a very, very hard year in Guatemala, natural disasters, sink holes, flooding, mud slides, volcano eruptions, rising costs of living and a severe lack of jobs due to a lack of tourism and all of the reasons listed above.
Mother Teresa said "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one..."
They are asking for your help to feed just one family this Holiday Season.
Food prices have continued to rise again this year .
This Food Crisis means that families will be forced to forego traditional foods for tortillas and beans. This continues to take its toll on children and families. There are lots of families needing help.
Malnutrition is a constant challenge in Guatemala. Guatemala has one of the highest malutrition rates in the world.
Please consider feeding an impoverished family this Holiday Season.
Many families in Guatemala do not have enough food to eat this year. Many of the families that they work with cannot afford to have the traditional meal at midnight on Christmas Eve.
You can make a difference now.
For $35 you can give a Christmas Tamale Basket and feed a family of 12 or more. Their Christmas basket is made of plastic and will be used afterwards by the family to stack and wash dishes, hold food etc. The food items will include: Oil, 15 lbs of Rice to make the tamales, a block of drinking chocolate (this is traditional to drink at midnight), a loaf of bread with which they eat the tamales at midnight, sugar for the tamales, coffee, usually they include raisins, grapes, apples but this year there are so many people in need of food that these luxury items will be replaced for food staples such as beans, corn or vitamin enriched cereal. Its hard for us to imagine that raisins, grapes and apples are considered "luxury" items here.
To make a contribution for the Christmas Tamale baskets please go to their website
http://mayanfamilies.org/DonateOnline
and go the General Donation section to send a donation. If you would like to pay by check please send your donation made out to Mayan Families to:
Mayan Families
P.O. Box 52
Claremont, N.C. 28610
If you would like to give this gift in Honor of someone special, please send them an email to: dwight@mayanfamilies.org
giving them the details and we will put them on our IN HONOR OF web page.....to have an e-mail sent to the person you are honoring - please send them their email address.
Thank you for your support.
ABOUT Them:
Mayan Families is a small non-profit group working in the Highlands of
Guatemala. We are a registered 501(c)(3) Non Profit Charity of the Internal Revenue Code.
Your donation is tax deductible.
P.S. Please help spread the word by forwarding this e-mail to your community or posting it on your personal blog, web page and your social networks such as Facebook, You Tube, MySpace, Google Buzz, Twitter, Hi5, Blogs and any others that are appropriate.
Please follow Mayan Families on
Blog: http://mayanfamilies-sharon.blogspot.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mayanfamilies
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=100343161838&ref=ts
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/mayanfamiliesvideo
Mayan Families Connection Blog
http://mayanfamiliesconnectionguatemala.blogspot.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/mayan_families
Mayan Families on Google BUZZ:
http://www.google.com/profiles/mayanfamilies#buzz
If you would like to join a Yahoo support group that assists Mayan Families please go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MayanFamiliesConnection
To ensure receipt of our emails, please add dwight@mayanfamilies.org to your Address Book."
To signup for our E-mail Newsletters please go to:
http://www.mayanfamilies.org/EmailSignup.aspx
Your help this Holiday Season makes small miracles happen!
It is Christmas Tamale Food Basket time again! Tis the Season for Giving Food!
Christmas Food Basket Time!
IT IS THE SEASON FOR SHARING.
At midnight on Christmas Eve 2005, two of Mayan Families (an NGO in Panajachel, Guatemala ) sponsored students went door to door hoping someone would give them a tamale to eat.
This is the traditional meal at Christmas in Guatemala. Their single mother could not afford to buy the ingredients to make Tamales.
When they found out about this they wondered how many other families could not afford to celebrate Christmas and how many other children were sad and hungry at this time of the year.
It turned out there were a lot of people who could not afford to celebrate Christmas.
In 2006 they started the Christmas Tamale Basket Program. They gave out 215 baskets of food. In 2007 they gave out 650 baskets. In 2008 we gave out more than 1,000. In 2009 they gave out approximately 1,600 Christmas Baskets of Food! In 2010, probably because of the economy, the count was down to 1380. Many families had to be turned away.
This year has been a very, very hard year in Guatemala, natural disasters, sink holes, flooding, mud slides, volcano eruptions, rising costs of living and a severe lack of jobs due to a lack of tourism and all of the reasons listed above.
Mother Teresa said "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one..."
They are asking for your help to feed just one family this Holiday Season.
Food prices have continued to rise again this year .
This Food Crisis means that families will be forced to forego traditional foods for tortillas and beans. This continues to take its toll on children and families. There are lots of families needing help.
Malnutrition is a constant challenge in Guatemala. Guatemala has one of the highest malutrition rates in the world.
Please consider feeding an impoverished family this Holiday Season.
Many families in Guatemala do not have enough food to eat this year. Many of the families that they work with cannot afford to have the traditional meal at midnight on Christmas Eve.
You can make a difference now.
For $35 you can give a Christmas Tamale Basket and feed a family of 12 or more. Their Christmas basket is made of plastic and will be used afterwards by the family to stack and wash dishes, hold food etc. The food items will include: Oil, 15 lbs of Rice to make the tamales, a block of drinking chocolate (this is traditional to drink at midnight), a loaf of bread with which they eat the tamales at midnight, sugar for the tamales, coffee, usually they include raisins, grapes, apples but this year there are so many people in need of food that these luxury items will be replaced for food staples such as beans, corn or vitamin enriched cereal. Its hard for us to imagine that raisins, grapes and apples are considered "luxury" items here.
To make a contribution for the Christmas Tamale baskets please go to their website
http://mayanfamilies.org/DonateOnline
and go the General Donation section to send a donation. If you would like to pay by check please send your donation made out to Mayan Families to:
Mayan Families
P.O. Box 52
Claremont, N.C. 28610
If you would like to give this gift in Honor of someone special, please send them an email to: dwight@mayanfamilies.org
giving them the details and we will put them on our IN HONOR OF web page.....to have an e-mail sent to the person you are honoring - please send them their email address.
Thank you for your support.
ABOUT Them:
Mayan Families is a small non-profit group working in the Highlands of
Guatemala. We are a registered 501(c)(3) Non Profit Charity of the Internal Revenue Code.
Your donation is tax deductible.
P.S. Please help spread the word by forwarding this e-mail to your community or posting it on your personal blog, web page and your social networks such as Facebook, You Tube, MySpace, Google Buzz, Twitter, Hi5, Blogs and any others that are appropriate.
Please follow Mayan Families on
Blog: http://mayanfamilies-sharon.blogspot.com/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mayanfamilies
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=100343161838&ref=ts
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/mayanfamiliesvideo
Mayan Families Connection Blog
http://mayanfamiliesconnectionguatemala.blogspot.com/
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/mayan_families
Mayan Families on Google BUZZ:
http://www.google.com/profiles/mayanfamilies#buzz
If you would like to join a Yahoo support group that assists Mayan Families please go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MayanFamiliesConnection
To ensure receipt of our emails, please add dwight@mayanfamilies.org to your Address Book."
To signup for our E-mail Newsletters please go to:
http://www.mayanfamilies.org/EmailSignup.aspx
Your help this Holiday Season makes small miracles happen!
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