Guatemala - Sponsorship Program
CCI’s Child Sponsorship Program is an ongoing, monthly commitment of $30.00 a month to aid in meeting a child’s physical, emotional, spiritual, and educational needs.
After you subscribe for the child's sponsorship, a photo with his/her profile will be sent to you. Twice a year (Summer and Christmas) Humanitarian Aid staff visits Guatemala to video and photograph the children. A DVD and photos of the child are sent to the sponsor family with any current information.
Correspondence between you and your sponsored child is highly encouraged. We will help in translating your letters. They can be send by e-mail or regular mail.
Please see the Sponsorship Facts Page for more information on the program.
Celebrate Children International is currently working with three different Orphanages in Guatemala. Please click below for the children's available in each Orphanage:
Orphanage #1 - Click to Visit
This is one of the largest programs we support in Guatemala, caring for 250 children in Guatemala City alone. Sharing our vision to reach the lost for Christ, this organization gives everything they have to providing the vast needs of orphaned children. CCI recently delivered a shipping container filled with a variety of items including: washing machines, clothing, school supplies, computers, tables/chairs, toiletries, cleaning supplies, office supplies, books, shoes, kitchen items, and much more. The missionaries of this orphanage were extremely grateful and pleased with all that they received.
This orphanage is currently building a compound they have called the Children’s City. This will house several of their children’s homes as well as their school, Activity Center, Library, laundry facility, and offices. CCI has been working with them to help provide needed items to finish these projects.

This is a picture of the older children coming together to worship in the Multi-purpose Center located in the Children's City.

This shows an outside view of one of their schools. These buildings have just been completed and are now functioning as classrooms, computer labs, and science laboratories provided with funds from Celebrate Children International.

Some of the children in the computer lab.
Orphanage #2 - Click to Visit
It is always a true pleasure to visit this orphanage. The children are a pure delight and we are always glad to see the Director. This orphanage has undergone several changes over the last year and the results are so encouraging! CCI continues to sell coffee and note cards to assist them in covering their operating expenses. (Please see our Mayan Hope Shop to purchase any of these items.) During our last visit we were able to provide 6 computers for the orphanage, clothing, and financial donations. In May, CCI paid for the cost of a full time teacher to “home school” 8 of the children living in the orphanage. They are in the process of creating a Montessori teaching center as well as supplying a library for the children on the premises.
This shows partial view of the orphanage, with the main dinning room and kitchen in the middle and the boy's home in the two yellow buildings.
A view from the top of the orphanage where the chapel is, overlooking the playgrounds and lower area part of their school.
CCI is a 501(c)(3) and all donations are tax-deductible.
Featured Children:
We Need Sponsors!
Elizabeth Birth date: November 13, 1997 unknown Elizabeth is a beautiful, well-behaved thirteen-year-old young girl who came to the orphanage with all her siblings and mother. Due to the physical and intense emotional abuse that all the children and their mother were suffering from the father (who dealt with drugs) the mother sought shelter at the orphanage to be able to give her children protection. Elizabeth likes school, she is in eighth grade and receives good grades. Her favorite food is pizza and her favorite color is black. Her favorite subject in school is natural science and her favorite sport is soccer. She says she likes living in the orphanage because is more peaceful and she feels protected. She would like to be an actress when she grows up.
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Victor Birth date: Unknown
Victor is 13 years old. He is in fifth grade and his favorite subject is math. He has average of C in class. He wants to be an engineer when he grows up. His favorite sport is soccer and his favorite World Cup team is Barcelona. He likes to play the drums. His favorite food is Pollo Camplero, a Guatemalan version of Kentucky Fried chicken. His favorite color is purple and his favorite music is Mexican folklore music (rancheras). He was admitted to the orphanage for his own protection of the gangs that were all around where he lived. His brothers are also in the orphanage since they were sent there to be protected from the drug gangs. He would like to have a sponsor family.
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Pictures From the 2011 Mission Trip!!! Friends for Life: Mission trip volunteers formed bonds with many of the children at the orphanages. Because of this newly found love, they felt compelled to sponsor these children so their friendship can be for life.
Even Humanitarian Aid Coordinator Carmen Found a Child to Sponsor!
Thanks to All Who Helped! June 19-26 Team:
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