KGAP - Kickapoo Guatemala Accompaniment Project

Don Chepe and Connie Vanderhyden
photo by Andi Alexander

The latest issue of the Newsletter is now available.
It includes a letter with from Jubinal Carrillo Funes, Director of the Instituto Basic. It also includes information about the current students who have received KGAP scholarships (see photos below).
There is also an update on the COVID 19 and the community plans to create an emergency fund to help take care of those affected by the pandemic.

Click here to read the NEWSLETTER

“I want to tell you that every day that passes, we remember you because you have love in your hearts for us and for other communities that suffer poverty, extreme poverty. Thank you for all the affection and the firm commitment that you have made with us from when we were refugees in Mexico, on our return and still here with us, living in this beautiful place.”
Don Gilberto Gutierrez, Nueva Esperanza –Chacula, Guatemala, 1999

ALL K/GAP FUNDING COMES FROM DONATIONS AND SMALL GRANTS. ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX-DEDUCTIBLE.

SEND DONATIONS TO:

KGAP
c/o CONNIE VANDERHYDEN
E 9048 PIERCE HILL ROAD
VIROQUA, WI 54665

KGAP (Kickapoo-Guatemala Accompaniment Project) is a project of KCE (Kickapoo Cultural Exchange) a local 501c3 nonprofit organization registered in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and YIHS (Youth Initiative High School), a 501c3 nonprofit organization registered in Wisconsin.

In addition, K/GAP is affiliated with the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA, www.nisgua.org) a national non-profit organization that supports many projects and efforts in Guatemala.