Mayan Partners

12/04/2024

We are so grateful for your support of Mayan Partners this year. Our work in supporting the Colegio Bethel middle school and Saludos Ninos preschool in Panyebar, Guatemala, continues to make a positive difference in this poor, rural community. Our new work with the medical clinic in the area is providing much needed health care.

If you would like to make a year end donation please visit the Mayan Partner website:
https://mayanpartners.blogspot.com/p/home.html

12/14/2022

Thank you for your support of Mayan Partners. If you would like to make a year end donation please visit the Mayan Partner website:

** Coronavirus Update for Panyebar ** Panyebar is the main community in which Mayan Partners works. Located in the mountains an hour...

11/10/2022

Colegio Bethel graduation ceremony in October 2022. Congratulations to all the graduates!!

03/08/2022

Mayan Partners has had the privilege and joy in supporting Saludos Ninos, an amazing preschool in the village of Panyebar. The preschool teachers do a wonderful job in caring for and teaching these young ones. A new playset was recently added to the school for the kids to enjoy.

11/30/2021

We congratulate our 2021 graduates from Colegio Bethel Panyebar! These graduates worked hard and completed their three years of schooling. Mayan Partners thanks you for your support of the school and the community of Panyebar.

05/13/2020

The other project Mayan Partners supported even before working with the Panyebar community was Saludos Ninos, the village preschool and childcare group. The Saludos Ninos teachers desired to provide food for the families of the children who could not attend the preschool due to COVID-19 restrictions (and receive their 2 meals and 3 snacks which are part of the normal preparations). The teachers reached out, and we worked with them, suggesting a model similar to what schools in California have been using: the food is prepared by Saludos Ninos and families come and pick up the food to take home. There is no "gathering". In this case, Mayan Partners was able to provide the extra financial aid above their normal monthly food budget to support their effort.

05/12/2020

Coronavirus Assistance for Panyebar
When the Coronavirus hit Guatemala, Mayan Partners reached out to the community to see what they needed, and to explore how we might help. Being a remote community, their biggest need was not medical supplies or medical care -- they have had no confirmed cases of COVID-19 yet -- but it was for food and basic supplies as the supply lines in and out of their community had been cut off. The Mayan Partners Board met to discuss what could be done, and approved a one-time gift for the entire village, not just the staff and students of Colegio Bethel.

Leaders from the evangelical churches in Panyebar and a leader from the Catholic church came together with the mayor to decide on how to best allocate the provisions. This included several dozen large sacks of corn, many sacks of beans, sugar, cooking oil, essential paper products and soap

The leaders of the community prayed about how to best locate, purchase, and allocate the desired items. They prayed about their decisions and for the Panyebar community.

The provisions were purchased through a local wholesaler, who was able to acquire them even with the difficult restrictions on large purchases.

The families chosen by the community leaders to receive the provisions social distanced as they were processed at the school and waited in line for the food.

Each family chosen received their provision allotments. Overall, 239 families in Panyebar received provisions, meaning somewhere in the area of 1200-1500 people were helped by the $3,300 donation.

The Mayan Partner team received reports that the provisions had a huge positive impact on the families that received them. It was powerful to see how the community banded together to administer the funds from MP.

12/19/2019

Congratulations to the 2019 graduates of Colegio Bethel in Panyebar, Guatemala!!