After a sad farewell to our lovely children at Eagle’s Nest Orphanage, we headed back to Guatemala City to meet up with the pre-school aged children that live in and around the Guatemala City dump. These children live in extreme poverty, frequent danger, and with little hope of education, or a bright future. Most of their parents are illiterate and work day and night in the dump trying to salvage anything they can repurpose and resell to make a living. Vultures circle above; and flies swarm below... the smells of rotting trash, carcasses, and sewage become normal. While the Guatemalan government provides schooling up to sixth grade; most of these kids are raised with illiterate parents and are not educated enough to keep up. Hope Renewed is an organization that has set up a school for the children who live, and sometimes work, in the dump and who would otherwise not have a fighting chance to succeed in education. Our group met up with Jeff of Hope Renewed and started our experience at a cemetery adjacent to the dump to get an overview of the area and what Hope Renewed has done and plans to do in the future as God provides the resources to accomplish them. We did not take pictures of the living conditions these children experience, out of respect, but it was a good reminder that Americans take so much for granted. While many of these children are forced to work in the dump, there is a hope for them now that they have the ability to go to a school built in their community.