Seeds of Help Guatemalan Scholarship:::Florentina Simon Perez

Florentina Simon Perez is a lovely and bright 16 year old Mayan girl. She has received a Seeds of Help scholarship since 2007. Before we met her, young Florentina was working as a maid to try to earn money to pay for her schooling. Even though she makes her own clothes, she was unable to make enough money to pay the fee. This year she will complete 9^th grade and is the first person in her family to have studied past the 3^th grade. Florintina is also the only person in her family to speak Spanish as well as her families regional Mayan dialect of Catchikel. She is from the village of Colotenango in Huehuetenango (pronounced way-way-tn-ango), Guatemala where she lives in a two room adobe block house with her parents, sister, brothers, sister-in-law and grandmother. She has attended school at Fe y Alegria in Chiantla for the past three years and despite language barriers and the new environment for education has done very well with her schooling. With our help Florentina would like to continue her studies to be a nurse. With your help we can help make it happen.

Florentina is one of a dozen young people in Guatemala that are trying hard to get an education and learn for the betterment of her family and community. Seeds feels very fortunate to be able to help provide the opportunity for primary education and beyond.