Volunteers from both Belize and Guatemala met on Sunday, October 26, at the Rumors Resort Hotel at the periphery of San Ignacio Town to lay the ground work for future collaborations with 4 theWorld, a Non-Profit organization now operating in both Countries. Present for the meeting was the Assistant Mayor of San Andres in Peten, Guatemala, Hector Giron as well as 4theWorld Guatemala Director Jose Cunil. Executive Director of 4theWorld Robert Keith Froom was also present to give an overview of operations in Guatemala and how future projects in Belize will be undertaken.
4theWorld is now looking for volunteers in Belize, to assist various visiting teams from the United States, who will be coming to Belize early next year to work on community projects. Teachers in Belize are also being invited to get in contact with 4theWorld to do assessment needs in their communities so that it can work on projects in those communities, which would normally last for two years.
According to Hector Giron, who serves a community of 12,000 persons in San Andres, Guatemala, 4theWorld has built the roofs for five schools and given numerous scholarships to students in that community.
Jose Cunil, who was once the Principal of La Gracia in the Cayo District and who is now teaching English at a special 4theWorld School in Guatemala has done his part in serving as a volunteer for the Non Governmental Organization for ten years. He reports that the organization has donated finances to connect a school to the electrical grid in Guatemala and provided scholarships for students in his area.
“I am very satisfied with 4theWorld,” said Jose Cunil.
From the meeting with both Belizeans and Guatemalans on Sunday in Cayo it can be surmised that the NGO would like to duplicate its efforts in both Countries, to increase educational opportunities in the rural areas; where community members would have an important part in the development and running of those projects. Its Executive Director Robert Froom told volunteers on Sunday that he loves the people of both Belize and Guatemala.
