Guatemala Mission Trip - LCA

Liberty Christian Academy provides the most vulnerable girls in the area with quality Christian education, nutrition and counseling.

In Guatemala, the average years of schooling per student is 4.1 years — only 3 years for Mayan indigenous women. 25.5% of the population is illiterate, with illiteracy rates up to more than 60% in the indigenous population. 1 in 3 Guatemalan girls are married before the age of 18. The union is arranged by their family. Primary reasons are tradition and poverty. It means one less mouth to feed. Oftentimes an older man will marry a young girl and leave when he tires of her. Typically she is left with several children, no way to provide and is barely 18. This is the case for many of the mothers whose daughters are enrolled in Liberty Christian Academy. They have one mother who’s 18 and has 3 children. Another young mother has 10 children.

Young girls face the potential of being sold into sex trafficking. Poverty runs deep. Many desperate families unknowingly sell their daughters into the hands of sex traffickers under the guise that they will work in the United States as maids.

Liberty Christian Academy was created to help these young girls combat the harsh realities they may face.

Their vision is to create a community of strong, independent, service-minded Christian women who are equipped with the education & skills needed to emerge out of abuse and poverty.

Their mission is to provide young girls an excellent and challenging educational experience — to help them know, love, and practice what is true and good, while preparing them to live purposefully and intelligently in service to God and their community.