JOY-FILLED HOMES - LOS GOZOSOS
LOS GOZOSOS (ORPHANAGE AND SCHOOL) HONORS GOD WITH HER TITHE AS AN ACT OF WORSHIP. WE GIVE 10% OF GROSS INCOME AWAY AS OUR FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT FINANCIAL PRIORITY.
Joy-Filled Homes - Los Gozosos
Where Special Kids Find A Family
Our Goal is for each disabled child to reach his or her full potential. God loves them and has a wonderful plan for their lives. To us it means their days should be filled with hugs and kisses, fun activities and learning, caring personal attention and real advancement in life skills. Every disabled child is a soul that must be saved. We give them a clean protected environment where they can grow healthy in every way. We want them to become productive adults with a strong personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Our Home is specifically for orphaned children rejected by homes for normal children AND children whose families cannot take care of them because of their special needs. Our school is for children who cannot gain access to an education in the over-crowded Guatemalan public school system due to their disabilities or the ridicule of other students. Some of the children have severe hearing or vision deficits, microcephaly, learning disabilities, hydrocephaly, cerebral palsy, autism, Down syndrome, attention disorders or sensory integration difficulties. Beginning in 2003 with one child in the home and eight students in the school, the home now has ten special needs children with three children at home waiting to come back when our financial situation changes. The school has kindergarten through fourth grade.
Joy-Filled Homes provides a secure, loving environment with personal attention to each child’s individual needs where they learn at their own pace. The children receive physical and occupational therapy and participate in Bible and English class.
Chimaltenango is an indigenous Mayan town of 160,000. It is an important agricultural center located in the fertile highland plain of western Guatemala. We started the first (now operating independently) and, in 2007, the second Special Ed school in the area. Most disabled children are still hidden at home, often left alone tied into a bed so the mother can go out to work.
