Semana Santa Food Baskets for Guatemalan families in need.

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Semana Santa Food Basket Dear friends, Malnutrition and hunger are huge problems for indigenous Mayan communities. The families that we work with do not have enough for even the most basic foods, much less the traditional foods that are eaten during Semana Santa (Holy Week), the week-long springtime celebration that corresponds with Easter. Semana Santa is a time of sharing in Guatemala -- Please consider giving a food basket to a hungry family to share for  Semana Santa.  This basket will include: -Traditional fragrant sweetbreads -A block of drinking chocolate (It is traditional to have the sweet bread with hot chocolate) -A chicken -Squash -Carrots -Incaparina - a fortified cereal -Sugar -Bananas These items (some of which might be substituted depending on availability) will come in a large, reusable plastic basket that has many uses in a Guatemalan household. Your food basket donation can make the difference between another week of hunger, and the joyous celebration of an important holiday.  Any donation you can send will help to relieve the crushing poverty that these children and families endure.   If you would like to give a basket of food to  your sponsored student, or any needy family, please send a donation of $35 to the Community Aid Project at Mayan Families. You can make a difference now!    To make a contribution for the Easter-Semana Santa Tamale Food baskets please go to our website  http://mayanfamilies.org/DonateOnline  and go the Community Aid Donation section to send a donation. If you would like to designate a special family or a sponsored student to receive your basket please send us their student number, family aid number, or full name by e-mail to Sharon@mayanfamilies.org If you would like to pay by check please send your donation made out to Mayan Families to:   Mayan Families P.O. Box 52 Claremont, N.C. 28610   If you would like to give this gift in Honor of someone special, please send us an email to: dwight@mayanfamilies.org   Thank you for your support.  If you would like to help Mayan Families gain more support, please consider forwarding this e-mail to your friends, family, and colleagues. You can do a Facebook or Twitter posting, put up posters, shout from mountain tops -- get creative! Spreading the word is free, and lets the world know you think Mayan Families is doing a good job and deserves their support. It is a huge help to us and introduces our programs to people who would never hear about them otherwise.   ABOUT US: Mayan Families is a small non-profit group working in the Highlands of Guatemala. We are a registered 501(c)(3) Non Profit Charity of the Internal Revenue Code. . Your donation is tax deductible.   P.S. Please help spread the word by forwarding this e-mail to your community or posting it on your personal blog, web page and your social networks such as Facebook, You Tube, MySpace, Twitter, Hi5, Blogs and any others that are appropriate. Please follow Mayan Families on         Mayan Families Connection Blog MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/mayan_families  If you would like to join a Yahoo support group that assists Mayan Families please click here! Google BUZZ Link to our current and past Newsletters Are you a Rotarian or a member of another service club?  We can partner with you on projects to enhance the rural communities we serve.    To ensure receipt of our emails, please add dwight@mayanfamilies.org  to your Address Book." To signup for our E-mail Newsletters please go to: http://www.mayanfamilies.org/EmailSignup.aspx Thank you once again for supporting Mayan Families! Sincerely, Sharon Smart-Poage Mayan Families www.mayanfamilies.org Tel: 619-550-2608