Newsletter • April 2014 • Volume 4 Issue 3COMMUUNNIITTYYHand in Hand Ministries is an international service organization that transforms lives by sharing life’s essentials with the poor. Belizean Programs include Building for Change, The Outreach Center and Scholarship Opportunities.

BHS is a vibrant High School that has been in operation since2010 and works with their students in developing them mentally,spiritually, and physically into intelligent, sensitive and positive youngmen and women. BHS keeps their students fully engaged throughvarious Extra Curricular activities. One of these is crochet classes.

The students are tasked at learning this skill among othersand have them complete warm hats for children, which are later do-nated to various organizations that provide services to children, suchas the Cancer Society and others. Earlier this year, Hand In Hand Min-istries was the recipient of some of these warm hats for the childrenat our Day care, Preschool and Outreach Program.

This could not have been received at a better time, since ourweather earlier this year was pretty cool and our children were morethan glad to have been recipients of these gifts from BHS.

Thank You Belize High School for Caring for others!

Lend a Hand . . . Save a Life

Belize High School Donates to Hand in Hand Ministries

The Outreach Center Participates in Child Stimulation Month Activities in March 2014Every year the month of March is celebrated as

Child Stimulation Month to create public awarenessof the importance that we should all place on chil-dren and that it is our responsibility to help in theirdevelopment. Schools around the city celebratethrough participation in various activities held andHand In Hand Ministries Preschool participated inseveral activities such as the parade, visit to the Library, sports day, day at the park and Cultural Day,to name a few. The theme for this year was: “EarlyChildhood: Where Our Future Begins”Our children are our future men and women of

Belize and what we do with them now, will determinehow productive they will be in the future! Thanks to

ALL who support us in making this possible for our children in our Outreach Program.

144 North Front Street • PO Box 2187Belize City, Belize

Office Phone 011.501.227.6273Office Fax 011.501.227.1298

Hand in Hand’s Scholarship Program helps faciliate success to StudentsSince the inception of the Scholarship program ten years

ago, and with the ongoing support of donors for the Scholar-ship assistance program, we have been able to empowerstudents to obtain an education and become productivecitizen of Belize. It was because of the need and struggles ofstudents determined to obtain an education, but havingfinancial challenges to get an education, that this programwas initiated.

Shown here are a few students that are currently beingassisted through our Scholarship Assistant Program or havebeen assisted and are productive citizens of Belize. AngelitoConorquie (Teacher) currently assists with the Tutoring ses-sions for High School students, Inga Sandoval and KarrieBrown (Social Work), do presentations to BFC Partners onrelevant topics of need, on Saturday sessions, Rashida Bethran(Social Work) volunteers with the BFC Program twice a weekand contributes in the selection process. Jacinto Roches(Police Officer) does presentations to Immersion Groups.

Hand In Hand Ministries and its benefactors are proud tobe of assistance to these students and to be able to impactthem positively to become productive citizens of Belize!Want to be involved in our Scholarship Program, contact us at227-6273 or email us.

Want to help Hand In Hand Ministries but are unableto do so personally? You can help with supplies ofChildren Multivitamins with IRON, since our childrenhave a deficiency in that area. Call us at 2276273 oremail us at maggie@myhandinhand.org.

Students from Jefferson County Public Schoolsin Kentucky Participate in house build for Sonia

They were partnered with four students from ourScholarship Assistant Program, who were tasked to be theirbuddies for that one morning. They also had the opportunityto interact through a day trip at Altun Ha and also through aday of work at the build site, where a home for Sonia and herfamily, was in the making. We would like to thank AnglicanCathedral College, E P Yorke, Pallotti High School and St.Catherine’s Academy for working with us and making thisexchange experience possible. During this trip relations werebuilt among students, lessons were learned and expectationswere more than what was anticipated.

In April a group from Kentucky, led by our CEO, MarlaCautilli, and David Calzie came to Belize on an Immersion trip,accompanied by four young and vibrant High School studentsfrom Jefferson County Public Schools, along with theirchaperones and other participants, whom were chosen to bea part of this great experience. The students that came fromKentucky participated in an exchange program that allowedthem to experience being a High School student in Belize.