We are on a mission to changes lives, one child at a time. This mission began in January 2013 with a visit to a tin shack where 3 small children were home alone after dark. Mom worked 14 hours a day yet didn’t earn enough for them to attend school. They ate only once a day. Wanting to help, one of our founders began sending money to the local pastor who was trying to remedy this. A year later she returned to be overrun by the children excited to introduce a little brother. She was stunned to hear, “Mom couldn’t afford to keep us all, so she had to send him away. Now he can live with us again. Can he go to school too?” From this encounter, Matthew 2540 was formed becoming a 501c3 in early 2015. Since then, around 80 children annually have had the opportunity to attend La Promesa School in Guatemala. They are the first in their families to go to school. Despite the conditions in which they live, two graduates are now teachers at La Promesa. Two attend university and others are working steady jobs to provide for their families. In late 2022, Matthew 2540 bought land. Our Building Bright Futures campaign aims to raise the funds to build the daycare through grade 6. We are on track to begin construction in late 2024.
The truest measure of poverty is when you have no options to improve your situation. The goal of Matthew 2540 is to change this by Empowering Children to Escape Poverty through Education.
