Team Ceiba Blanca
On May 10, the Cornerstone Church community will be participating in the Amway River Bank Run in downtown Grand Rapids to raise support for the computer lab at Ceiba Blanca CarePoint in Guatemala. Please join us in supporting the Cornerstone Church and Ceiba Blanca CarePoint team!
About the Partnership
Cornerstone Church has partnered with Children’s HopeChest in the area of Ceiba Blanca, in Southwest Guatemala since November 2019. The village of Ceiba Blanca has about 900 people. There is no high school in the village, so most children only complete the 6th grade and begin to work at a young age to help support their families. Most in the community have informal and seasonal jobs, leaving families with low and inconsistent income. Due to the economic situation and lack of access to nutritious food, children are malnourished. Mision El Cristo de Nazareth (Mission the Church of Christ of Nazareth) is a local evangelical church that saw the need to help the youth of the village, so they began by implementing a VBS program. The members of the church are invested in their community to improve the lives of the children and their families.
With the partnership of the Cornerstone Church in Michigan, the children at Ceiba Blanca CarePoint have the opportunity to grow physically, spiritually, and emotionally while the Cornerstone Church community also experiences positive transformation!
Team Members
About the Project
The mission of HopeChest is to empower children and their communities to succeed in the future. To this end, education is an extremely important pillar, and even more important to provide the necessary technological knowledge to be part of a globalized world and to be able to compete in the world of work. Therefore, a well-equipped computer lab to access technology is essential for a community’s educational and economic development. This facility will provide children with vital computer skills, strengthening their education and helping them in the future to have better job prospects. Additionally, the lab will serve as a business hub in the community, offering services such as printing, internet access, and computer training, generating revenue for the CarePoint. The implementation will consist of equipping a computer classroom with 1 air conditioner, 7 laptop computers, computer desks and chairs to serve 150 children attending the CarePoint additionally it will cover the salary of a teacher for 18 months.
