Tuesday 7 November 2023

What are Casa de Esperanza’s recent successes?

Day 2: Hope and a future for two teenage boys

Iain Crofton Briggs writes:

Casa de Esperanza has had some wonderful success stories.

Two boys, Juanito and Angel, who were 13 and 15, respectively, when they came to us are graduating their Preparatoria exams to start university next February.

Juanito had been working in a car wash 19 hours a day from the age of 10, paying for his parent’s drug habit. Naturally he got involved in drugs to cope.

When he came to us, he had trench foot from the water he had to stand in for hours, daily. He had not completed his primary education. He is now looking at engineering in the best military university in the country.

Angel is looking to be a doctor studying at the same university but in a different city.

We are so proud that their final exams have allowed them access to this standard of study.

Incredible. God has given them a hope and a future.

Prayer points:

• We have learned, that with their family histories, of drugs, as well as their own use in the past, that it is highly likely they will be refused entry to their chosen university. This is because the Marines are sensitive to issues of potential corruption and can’t afford for the cartels to gain a hold through them or their families.

• Please pray for a miracle that the boys will get the exact university placement for each of them.