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Belmopan International Women's Group

Belize, Central America


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Outreach Program

Ongoing Outreach Projects:

Our programmes include monthly food parcels for 8 families in the Cayo district. We also provide clothing for Hospitals to help new mothers and young children who arrive at Belmopan hospital for treatment and have no change of clothing. We've recently added to our projects, the Palm Center in Belmopan, a home for mentally challenged persons. We need donations for them of clothing, underwear. toiletries, games, books, magazines, DVD's, CD's and anything that could help them create a vegetable garden.

Do you know of a family or individuals in the Cayo District in need of assistance from the BIWG Outreach Team?
Please contact our volunteers at:

CHILDREN’S BOOKS HAVE ARRVED!

BIWG will always be able to use more English language children’s books. ANY reading books you have that you no longer use for your own children – any age group from basic beginner to older teens, please contact to arrange collection.
Other items such as toys, games, infant wear, childrens shoes & clothing in good condition are also appreciated.

Outreach Update - October 2009

Here are a few examples of what we've achieved with the money raised in the past 3 years.

  • Monthly feeding programs totalling $11,000 per year for families, schools and shelters in the Cayo District
  • Thousands of dollars in medical assistance
  • School sponsorship for many children
  • Educational Projects
  • Equipment for schools
  • A monthly birthday party for the children of Marla’s House of Hope
  • Christmas Parties for Marla’s and families in San Ignacio living with AIDS
  • ‘Clothing for Hospitals’ project to help young mothers and their families
  • Assistance for flood and fire victims
  • Assistance to the George Price Centre Summer Reading Programme
  • Sponsorship for the Youth Cadet Group from Blackman Eddy.
  • Sponsorship for Camp Glow, teaching young girls life skills
  • Sponsorship for the Police Cadets annual camp
  • Assistance for The Palm Centre psychiatric facility, Belmopan.
  • Distribution of thousands of books from the UK to rural schools in Belize.
    … and much, much more

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Outreach Update - August 2009

  • We presented Tim Tam with a cheque for $1000.00 to go towards the outstanding expenses related to Moises care, recovery and homecoming. See pictures below.

  • The purchase of approximately $200.00 worth of badly needed underwear went to the men and women residents of Palm Centre, the psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Belmopan.

  • We donated $400.00 towards equipment needed by the youth Cadet Group from Blackman Eddy.

Outreach Update - June/July 2009

  • At the request of a member who works with Peace Corp, we donated $700.00 to sponsor 7 girls to attend an informational camp where they will have the opportunity to learn better life skills. In August we will update with more info and photos.

  • We donated $360.00 to enable a 28 year old father who is unable to work due to seizures, to have CT scans at KHMH in Belize City.

  • We also donated $380.00 for treatment for a one year old child who has a serious bone growth problem.

  • Moises, the little boy in Amarillo Hospital, Texas, has had surgery this coming week. We will keep you posted.

  • By all accounts, the little girl is doing as well as can be expected, but is still waiting for a suitable kidney donor. There have been volunteers but they were unfortunately deemed unsuitable.

  • A member visited REMAR, a male alcohol rehab facility in Cayo. At their request ladies brought much needed toiletry donations to the meeting.

  • The hundreds of book that we received from the UK, via Batsub, were delivered to as many schools as possible, including Valley of Peace, St. Mathews Village, Palm Centre and Belmopan Library.

    A reminder that outreach request forms can be downloaded from belmopaninternationalwomensgroup.org.


Outreach Update - April 2009

  • The executive agreed to donate $200.00 per month to Mary Open Doors, to help them with their food budget. The first cheque was presented at the last meeting. They are always in need of toiletries, disposable diapers of all sizes etc. If anyone has such, you can always drop them off at our general meetings and we will see that they get to MOD. Thank you to all the ladies who donated items at the last meeting. We are also happy that we could donate a single bed, thanks to one of our American members who will be leaving Belize.

  • We donated $500.00 towards transport costs for a little boy who was dying in a Belize hospital & is now doing well while he gains enough weight to undergo surgery.

  • A breakfast feeding program for 30 children has just been started at a School in Las Flores. Different organizations will provide monthly funding. We will provide funding for one month of the year at a cost of $125.00.


Outreach Matters:

Tim Tam from Word at Work Ministries, has donated 'Vitaball' vitamins, appropriate for children 5 - 18 years. Linda has undertaken to distribute them to where we think they will be most beneficial.

Last year we had donated money via the above mentioned ministry, for a young girl who needs a kidney transplant. Sadly they have not been able to find a suitable donor, so Tim Tam has returned the money to us. We will keep the lines of communication open with him so that we can be of further financial assistance if needs be.

The lady towards whom we donated money for a double hip replacement in the US, is now back home and in need of non-strenuous employment. She is computer literate and bilingual. Please contact us if you have any interest.

Within the last month we have donated $400.00 towards a lady who is undergoing cancer treatment in a new center in Dangriga. The same amount is being donated towards a young man who is going to Nicaragua for brain surgery.

If you want to submit an outreach request, please go to the top of this page to download the request form. Please fill it out with clear information.

Outreach Achievements

  1. The group has contributed to a 15 year old boy from Las Flores School. These funds will provide much needed uniforms and a pair of shoes. It will also pay for his school fees.
  2. Funds were used to pay for plates, bowls, and cups for the King's Children's Home, for over 60 children residing there. Additionl funds also went to pay for school fees and uniforms.
  3. Purchase of a microwave for the Baptist Church Programme.
  4. Roaring Creek Pre-school; purchase of microwave oven and filing cabinet.
  5. January 2007: Sylvia identified a boy - Ernesto - who needed our help with school fees for himself and $40 groceries per month for his family.
  6. Dec 2006: Commenced Dora's initiative of the feeding programme for the 4 families living with AIDS in San Ignacio; this is ongoing, with the monthly food parcels to the value of $40 being raised to $50 in July 2007. Thanks go to Miriam Player and her team in San Ignacio for the purchase and assembly of the parcels, and to Dr Goncalves who distributes the parcels to the appropriate families.
  7. February 2007: $500 donation was given to Belize Christian Academy for their Easter feeding programme.
  8. February 2007: An appeal from Rock Farm, Camelote, to help with donations of clothing and house-ware for a family who's possessions (and home) were totally destroyed by fire resulted in more than enough items necessary - the remainder were put into the next sale or given to the aids families.
  9. April 2007: we awarded a station prize for the cycle race of $200.
  10. April 2007: we gave $200 to Belmopan Pre-School summer fete toward the cost of the bouncy slide - we understand they raised several hundred dollars as a result.
  11. April 2007: After an appeal from Cathy Stevulak and the ladies of the US Embassy, we gave $700 to purchase sets of books for the summer reading programme at the George Price Centre - this initiative was a tremendous success and will be running next summer.
  12. July 2007: It was agreed to provide monthly food parcels to a value of $50 per month for an elderly blind lady and also to a family in Belmopan living with AIDS; the group would like volunteers in Belmopan to join the 'shopping roster'.

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