Keep Shining; Light Endures
December 4, 2025
This season, as we gather around twinkling lights and glowing candles, we’re reminded that light endures. Today, on a day defined by generosity — Giving Tuesday — we’re pausing to recognize the light you have already sparked in communities across Central America.
Children who once walked long distances for water now drink safely at school. Classrooms once dark and disconnected are now alive with solar-powered offline digital libraries. Families who faced daily scarcity can rely on rainwater tanks and community-run systems that restore health and dignity and time.
The invitation to Share the Light this season is a celebration of the communities whose resilience continues to illuminate paths forward. Light guides us toward solutions — and almost always, that path leads to water. Thanks to supporters like you, teachers, parents, and local technicians have worked together to rehabilitate water systems, build latrines, and install handwashing stations this year.
High in the hills of Comitancillo, Guatemala, eight rural schools had latrines that were broken, abandoned, or simply never built to last. Girls stayed home. Attendance dropped. Teachers struggled to keep classrooms healthy.
But this year, things changed.
More than 1,000 students now learn in safe, clean environments, and teachers report improved attendance — especially among girls.
This is the light you help share.
And deep in the heart of Bosawas, Nicaragua, Marjorie used to follow a familiar riverbank path each morning, winding downhill over clay stairs carved by countless footsteps. At the bottom, a shallow pool formed where river water settled – and this is where she filled her bucket, day after day. It was her routine.
Today, with a new water system delivering clean water directy to her home, Marjorie no longer descends the riverbank, bucket in hand. Instead, she turns a tap — a simple act that has transformed her days and reclaimed her time.
This is the light you help share.
This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to continue to Share the Light, to keep it moving — sharing knowledge, lifting voices, and lighting the way toward equity and justice. So more people can step into possibility.
The glow of giving is the brightest light of all.
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