{"id":2452,"date":"2014-09-26T15:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/blog\/2014\/09\/26\/a-light-of-hope-in-juanitos-life\/"},"modified":"2025-02-15T10:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:03:04","slug":"a-light-of-hope-in-juanitos-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/blog\/2014\/09\/26\/a-light-of-hope-in-juanitos-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A light of hope in Juanito&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Geovanny Castro Chamal\u00e9, more known amongst us \u00a0as &#8220;Juanito\u201d, it&#8217;s a teenager from Guatemala whom has struggled from his situation, helped by Fundaci\u00f3n Operaci\u00f3n Rescate. <!--more-->Welcomed by the organization, he studied and learn to put his trust into God so he could achieve a full positive life within society. After all these years Juanito comments: \u201cI thank God for having\u00a0Operaci\u00f3n Rescate\u00a0rescued me and all the benefactors, whom have believe in the children and teenagers from\u00a0our Country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We chat a little with Juanito and we would like to share it with you:<\/p>\n<p><b>Tell us about your family.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When I was 8 years old I went to live with my grandma. I studied and worked hard by her side until I finished middle school. Those years I lived with her are the best and she is for me my &#8220;super granny&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><b>Before entering &#8220;Apoyate en mi&#8221;, \u00bfWere you attending school?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Before entering \u201cAp\u00f3yate en m\u00ed\u201d indeed I was studying but I failed that year, I was in &#8220;primero b\u00e1sico&#8221; *(high school). Then I meet the school that helped me out .<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00bfHow did you hear from Operaci\u00f3n Rescate?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I was introduced to Operaci\u00f3n Rescate by a great woman whom believed in me. I am really thankful towards her because I would had never meet the principal and I don&#8217;t know where I would be today if she hadn&#8217;t helped me.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00bfHow different was your experience studying at the school \u201cAp\u00f3yate en m\u00ed\u201d?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As a student my experience was really nice because I never thought the things I could learn at such a different school; my spiritual life changed and I meet a really important person, named Jesus, whom entered my heart.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00bfWhat other benefits did you got from Operaci\u00f3n Rescate?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bags full of supplies, clothes, medicine and food, but specially God&#8217;s word at all time.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00bfHow did Operaci\u00f3n Rescate helped you after school was over?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>They gave me the opportunity to help back at school. I am still supporting Operaci\u00f3n Rescate by been the messenger boy and been a &#8220;handy guy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><b>If you had to resume Operaci\u00f3n Rescate in one phrase what would you say?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I should say: &#8220;A light of hope for the families of the children\u201d. They also have this great say: \u201cOperaci\u00f3n Rescate, a candle in the middle that never burns out and it&#8217;s a great bless&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00bfIn the future, how would you like to help Operaci\u00f3n Rescate?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well, I would like to help them economically so they could give the children more opportunities and growth in the things of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Geovanny Castro Chamal\u00e9, more known amongst us \u00a0as &#8220;Juanito\u201d, it&#8217;s a teenager from Guatemala whom has struggled from his situation, helped by Fundaci\u00f3n Operaci\u00f3n Rescate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apoyate-en-mi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/operacionrescate.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}