While browsing in a jade shop in Antigua in 2003, Fran Lenski, picked up a flyer with a photograph of an impoverished Mayan girl on the front. Its headline, The Maya Need You, resonated with him, so he folded the flyer and put it in his pocket. “When I returned home to home to Portland I shared the flyer with my wife, Sue, who was also moved by the photo of the beautiful but obviously poor child.” said Fran Lenski, 72, a retired attorney whose love of travel has led him to ex

Residents of Newport Beach, California, Alison and Charlie Nightingale and their family have supported Adopt-a-Village in Guatemala for more than a decade through the organization’s Child Sponsorship program. Here Alison shares her family’s emotional 13-year journey sponsoring Pascual, a Mayan boy with Cerebral Palsy. How did you learn about the organization? A friend of mine was one of Adopt-Village’s first volunteers. She told me about the organization and I was inspired by