How desperate are the parishes in Central American for materials?? This excerpt from a letter from Father Carlos Anibal Barrera Morataya, S.S.B., asking for help in obtaining English and Spanish teaching material, begins to give an answer:

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Tajumuco, Chiantla
Huehuetenango,
19/7/2002

Reverend Fathers of the Holy Catholic Orthodox Church
Peace and Health in Jesus

I have been working for the last two years in a small parish in Our Lady of Perpetual Help in this village.

I would like to tell you that I am running a small parochial school of basic level. And for this purpose I am writing to see if you all can help with me with teaching materials, in English and in Spanish for the students. I am working in the state of Huehuetenango in a very far village near the border of Mexico where we are promoting the Catholic and Apostolic faith and evangelizing. I hope to have an answer to my letter please write to me at:

Iglesia Catolica Ortodoxa
Aldea Tajumuco, Chiantla
Huehuetenango, Guatemala CA
Telephone # 205-7627

My God and the Mother of Jesus Bless you.
Father Carlos Anibal Barrera Morataya

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Do you have any books or publications in Spanish which can be used as religious, historical, scientific, social or other text/school books? Send them to Father Carlos - and be sure to pay all the shipping costs for he has no money. Be sure to keep a record if you need one for tax purposes because such niceties are not comprehended in places where income is computed by how hungry you are when you go to bed.

If you need receipts for cash donations please send such donations to:

Archbishop Andres Giron
Parcela B - 105, Calle del Banco
Nueva Concepcion, Escuintla
Guatemala C.A.

Or to

The Society of Clerks Secular of Saint Basil
Holy Innocents Orthodox Church
311 Hickory Avenue
Harahan, Louisiana 70123
U.S.A.