Sewhope Inc

“Anne ruch randall ruch chairman vice-chairma spouse”

“Board members are provided with a copy of the form 990”

“Conflicts are monitored annually in accordance with the conflict of interest policy”

“Compensation if established by the board and takes into consideration salaries of similar sized organizations”

“Compensation if established by the board and takes into consideration salaries of similar sized organizations”

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“Education highlights for 2024: - our additional classroom was built and ready for the 2025 school year - seiner lopz is our full-time principal - two new teachers were hired for parvulos and 5th grade - teachers worked on khan academy time each week to improve their math skills - for 2024: 8,040 minutes and 555 skills mastered, all working at least at the 4th grade level - regular education meetings have been held each month adi continues to translate - students - raz kids - 35,290 books listened to; 35,512 books read - students - khan academy math skills - improved on 13,027, 103 per student - mastered 9,733, 77 per student - distribution of crosses to students during may visit, help from maumee united methodist church youth - communication with sponsors included a handmade card in may and a christmas card in december - visit from the guatemalan ministry of education to discuss 2025 school year - held meeting with teachers to go over raz and khan academy and how to assist students to achieve more - we gave the standardized test that was given to us by the ministry of education one time. Most kids got 100%, decided not to give it again, very time consuming to grade - two new desktop computers were purchased through money donated at leap fundraiser - students received vaccinations - planted new trees on site with students caring for them - students had guest speakers that showed them possibilities of future careers - we held a metric olympics with students estimating and measuring actual distances of various events - we had our first family move night showing the movie vivo - our pen pal program with maumee valley country day school included letters and zoom calls - vbs was held right after school was completed, 125 students were in attendance; students also have bible study each day at school - a family fun day was held at the conclusion of the school year. Members of the staff, families and the community came together and paid for and poured a concrete slab performance area for the school and students' use - seiner secured many donations from the community for extra activities”

“Health program: - 11 hospitals, health districts and clinics sent paps to sewhope's cytology lab - held 104 jornadas (medical team visits to outlying communities), averaging 8-9 a month - 5,600 cervical cancer screenings and 321 procedures were performed - hosted workshops for local cytologists at sewhope's health center on proper cytology technique - 3 mission trips included: - 7 volunteer cytologists from the us and puerto rico - 3 volunteer ogbyns (california, michigan and ohio) - 1 volunteer oncologist - mayra sewhope's lead (local) cytologist participated in: - the 1st latin american meeting of cytologists - the 1st multidisciplinary congress of the san benito hospital - the "women's right to access health care for the prevention of breast and cervical cancer" forum”

“Community development program: - 27 stoves and 38 water filters were installed - 750 fish were raised and sold - 200 chickens were raised by 30 students, 1,130 were raised by women's groups and 22 individual families - 70 students were involved in activities, and 43 families were impacted by cd projects - 2 women's cooperative groups, with 9 members each. Total, the groups saved and earned approximately 9,100 - small kitchen outside of the clinic was built for the women's co-op members to use - 677 boxes of kcah food was delivered to 60 extremely poor families on a monthly basis”

“- a food packing event was held in the united states. The food is a dried combination of easily digestible protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins needed by an undernourished child's body and mind. 60,000 meals were packed in 4 hours by 250 volunteers. An additional 190,000 meals were donated and all were shipped to guatemola along with supplies and equipment for use in our programs in guatemala.”

“GUATEMALA”