Hope for Home Ministries

Providing Homes for Orphans, Children, and Adults with Special Needs: Over 50% of Guatemalan's overall population live below the poverty line. When resources are lacking, the most vulnerable, including those with disabilities, suffer the most. Our partners in Guatemala operate 4 family-based homes for children as well as a home for adults. At the end of 2023, 39 children and adults with special needs were receiving care and learning about the love of Jesus in these homes. Our partners purchased a three-acre tract of land in Paramos, Guatemala in early 2023. There they will build all of the group homes to provide what will be called Community of Hope. Liberia is among the poorest nations in the world, and orphans and children with special needs suffer most in this climate. People with disabilities are often abused and mistreated. Due to superstition, they are frequently viewed as demon possessed and are even murdered to try to avoid their curse. Our partners in Liberia provide a refuge for 14 orphan children. They receive medical attention, therapy, education, and love by single mothers or widows living in their boarding house. There are currently 32 children with special needs living in a community of 8 group homes. They receive food, housing, clothing, weekly Bible studies, an education. and all of their medical needs are met.

Provide Education, Evangelism and Discipleship: Our Liberia partners are operating 2 elementary schools. They had 193 students enrolled in 2023. Through individual sponsorship, every student receives an education, one meal each day, and free medical care. There were 8 students in Guatemala attending school through scholarship/sponsorship. Our partners in Guatemala are providing programs which address the pressing needs of victims of domestic abuse, sexual abuse, and human trafficking. We are partnering with an organization in the USA that recruits, trains and sends missionaries to teach the Gospel to Muslims.

Provide Development Aid and Humanitarian Relief through Health and Nutrition: Hope for Home Ministries addresses these needs through a multitude of ways in 3 countries alongside 5 ministry partners. Our partners in Guatemala run a Rural Village Ministry which provides medical treatment, wheelchairs, medicine, therapy, formula, food, and education to children and families with special needs. This often enables children to stay with their families; without this help, many loving families would be forced to surrender their children to institutional care. In 2023, 238 families in 16 departments were ministered to. They also continued providing food and resources to families still affected by the COVID-19 crisis. An after-school program feeds 85 children and teaches them life and occupational skills. In Florida Aceituno, Guatemala, where the malnutrition rate is very high, Aliento's Feeding and Formula Programs bring hope and nutrition to a town that desperately needs both. Nutritional lunches are provided 3 times each week to over 150 people in conjunction with formula distribution and nutrition classes for the moms of infants and young children. Most mothers give birth in Guatemala without prenatal care or trained medical oversight. This contributes to the very high rate of special needs as well as a high infant and mother mortality rate. Two Maternity Care Centers provided top-quality medical care to over 300 women and provided follow-up care to over 200 babies. Agriculture Programs in Guatemala and Liberia are growing food and raising hens and chickens to provide resources to related programs. Land was purchased and construction started on a hospital in Denta, Liberia. This will expand their current Medical Outpatient Clinics, which treated 1,400 patients each month.

We hosted 8 short-term ministry service teams to Guatemala in 2023 to care for orphans and to give US citizens an opportunity to experience the needs of orphans first hand.