Here is a great update on our first started well location! We are so incredibly excited to beginning with this well!
William Cornelius Vocational Training Centre
www.wcvtc.com
The William Cornelius Vocational Training Centre is a place where students are able to study
in a safe, beautiful and peaceful atmosphere. The building itself is essentially finished. The
labs are being used, though not yet complete. This is simply a tangible picture of what is taking place
in the lives of the students.
It opened with one class of students and over the next few years the student body will increase to its capacity of around 450 students. The school began with just one specialty, Computer Science. We now teach Dental Hygiene also. These are taught concurrently with all the usual high school subjects providing three years of study and career preparation. The plan is to add two vocational specialties per year depending on funding and approval from the local Education Authority.
Growth will occur however in the heart and minds of the young men and women who will come to the W.C.V.T.C. It is the desire and vision of the leadership to provide these young people with new dreams and opportunities for life. This will allow them not only to be efficient and successful in the career they choose but to also go on to become leaders in their field.
The William Cornelius Vocational Training Centre is different from the various other existing technical schools in Guatemala in that it is an establishment operating from a Christian worldview in regards to education.
They also have in place an international student sponsorship programme. This programme allows promising, bright young people, who are otherwise trapped in the sad cycle of poverty, to be enabled to surmount these daunting obstacles. This allows them to compete in Guatemala’s ever expanding market place.
The well that you are so generously helping us with is a necessary addition at the school for a variety of reasons; A) Consistent availability of clean water is essential to the running of the technical school. B) Piping it in is very expensive and not always available. C) Trucking it in is expensive and not necessarily clean, definitely not drinkable. We are teaching our students to be givers, not takers. You are showing them a great example of this in a practical way. The cost of drilling this well is extremely high but will be impacting the lives of generations of our young adult students for many years to come. There is also a strong possibility that should this God given well be able to yield a higher capacity of water than needed for the school, we should
be able to help the community in which the school is situated.
