"Mil Milagros is a gift that has provided new life to our children."
~Mil Milagros teacher
Partners
Mil Milagros, Inc. relies on a network of invaluable partners to ensure that the children and families we serve have the nutrition and health services they need to thrive.
In 2011, Mil Milagros formed an exciting partnership with Wuqu’Kawoq, an NGO with expertise in the prevention of chronic malnutrition in Guatemala. While Mil Milagros’s strategies have succeeded in alleviating hunger, and improving the children’s health, school attendance and graduation rates, they do not prevent chronic malnutrition or its consequences. Chronic malnutrition leads to stunting (under height for age) and Guatemala has the third highest rate of moderate to severe stunting in the world. Severe stunting puts the children at higher risk of disease and infection, impaired cognitive functioning and lower IQ scores. Subsequently, these children are much more likely to drop out of school and grow up to be unskilled workers. As adults, they are at a higher risk for diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
To address this urgent crisis, Mil Milagros joined forces with Wuqu’ Kawoq to implement a pilot supplemental infant and toddler feeding program to prevent the onset of chronic malnutrition in 121 young children in two of our partner schools/communities (Chutinamit and Chichimuch).
Additional US partners essential to our work include:
Cafecito Milagro founders Maura King Scully, Julie Bushway and Jill Takacs
The Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University
This website was created by John Macey and Jessica Gallagher, two aspiring web & graphic designers that received their training at CDIA. To see more samples of John or Jessica’s work, click on their name to visit their site.
Our Mission
Mil Milagros, Inc.™ partners with schools and families in Guatemala to improve the nutrition, health, education and life prospects of children from impoverished, predominantly Mayan families in the Guatemalan Highlands. Our goal is that all children in Guatemala graduate from sixth grade healthy and able to read. Only 30% of children in Guatemala currently graduate and up to 80% of Mayan children suffer from chronic malnutrition – the sixth highest rate in the world. By feeding the children, we are working to ensure that they complete primary school.
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