Compassion Adventure #3 (Central/South America 2013): Compassion Guatemala - An Inside Look

Before I left Guatemala, I had the privilege of visiting the Compassion Guatemala office in Guatemala City. It was a fantastic opportunity to look behind the scenes and meet people involved in making Compassion such a godly and amazing organisation to be part of. It was Friday afternoon, but everyone was friendly and willing to talk to me. I met:
- Facilitators
- Medical people
- IT people
- Finance people
- Admin people
- People who translate and process the letters
- People who organise trips and tours
- A couple of staff who used to be sponsored kids and are now working for the very organisation who gave them a hope and a future (LOVE those stories) :)

Every one of these people are professionals who could be getting more money/recognition/status etc if they worked elsewhere. Instead they choose to spend their lives serving God and helping the children of Guatemala by working with Compassion.

I even met the boss of Compassion Guatemala, Jose Carlos. It says something about him that he was still in the office at 3.00pm on Friday arvo : )

He showed me a giant map of Guatemalaon his wall, and on it were little magnets of different colours. They represented every Child Development Project in the country, the Project number and who was in charge of it.

My favourite story he shared was about the Project GU400, which is where my Josefa attends. Each Project has a special name, and the staff of GU-400 wanted to call theirs the “Rain of Blessings” project. The reason for this is simple. Every month, all the staff of that Project go to the nearby Santa Maria volcano, and they pray. They pray for the children and their families, the sponsors and the country of Guatemala. They do not publicise or advertise that they do this. Since they have been doing this, every month at least one child from the Project receives a family gift, or a visit, or something extra from their sponsors, above and beyond the usual $11 a week.

Rain of Blessings indeed.