See all of our current projects!
ONGOING
- Student sponsorships
- Backyard School Better Future Project
- Workshops with Psychologist Jose Miguel Yllescas Juarez
PAST
2019
- Nuevo Reto Community Garden, Villa Nueva (Ongoing, 2019)
- Hearing and Vision Clinic, Panajachel (March, 2019)
- Distribution of Diaper and Menstrual Kits (March and August, 2019)
- Shoe and Vitamins Drive (August, 2019)
- Sponsor Reading Contest, supplement the library and provide classroom needs at the elementary school in Canton Rio Camanibal (August, 2019)
- Stove and Water Filter Installation (August, 2019)
- Delivering Medical Supplies to the Bomberos — vounteer firefighters and emergency responders (August 2019)
2018
- Nuevo Reto Community Library (August 2018)
- Stove and Water Filter Installation (August 2018)
- Backyard School computer lab, San Bartolomé Milpas Altas (November, 2018)
- Shoe Drive for San Antonio Sacatepequez (August 2018)
- San Jorge la Laguna Well Child Checkups (January 2018)
2017
- Building a Library in Canton Rio Camanibal, Guatemala, August 2017 — the first project for the new nonprofit!
- WCTC – January 2017 (Trent went again with other medical students from WCTC to install stoves and water filters!)
2016
- Trent went with WCTC, and again with his teenage son later in the year – January and August 2016
2015
- Jennifer’s family went to deliver beds and school supplies – August 2015
The “right” opportunity arose when I learned about a travel opportunity for adoptive families which would include volunteer work and cultural sightseeing. Being members of that team had a profound impact on me, Lillian and Andrew. Not only were we able to make a real connection to our son’s birthplace, but we met incredibly warm and generous people, all of whom we now consider to be a part of our “family.” In addition to the volunteer work I shared with the Team, I also was able to “give back” by performing as my alter ego, “Farfel the Clown” at a barbecue for children of The Backyard School. It will remain one the proudest and happiest memories of my life.