{"id":13095,"date":"2023-03-22T16:38:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T16:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/?p=13095"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:17:58","slug":"los-inicios-del-colegio-mesoamericano-en-voz-de-sus-fundadores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/es\/los-inicios-del-colegio-mesoamericano-en-voz-de-sus-fundadores\/","title":{"rendered":"Los inicios de Meso Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"13095\" class=\"elementor elementor-13095\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a4e3186 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7a4e3186\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ea874b1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1ea874b1\" 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That was a great light that my father gave us to illuminate our lives. He always focused on teaching us many things from a young age. When I entered first grade, I already knew how to read and write because my father had taught me. To this day, what surrounds my bed are more than 100 books, and I am always reading&#8221;, said Rogelia.\n\n<div id=\"attachment_13099\" style=\"width: 1038px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13099\" class=\"wp-image-13099\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_1-1-300x200.png\" alt=\"Woman with her family, parents and kids\" width=\"1028\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_1-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_1-1-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_1-1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_1-1-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_1-1-2048x1365.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_1-1-900x600.png 900w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_1-1-600x400.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1028px) 100vw, 1028px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a white blouse, Do\u00f1a Rogelia Mor\u00e1n appears with her daughter Mar\u00eda, her father don Mario, her mother Mar\u00eda Consuelo Burgos and other members of her family.<\/p><\/div>\n\n<strong id=\"rogelialoves\">Rogelia\u2019s love of reading transformed into a desire to continue learning and put new skills into practice<\/strong>. Eventually, she realized she wanted to pass on this knowledge to help others less fortunate.\n\n&#8220;At a very young age, I started working as a rural teacher. I had the opportunity to study Community Advancement and learned how to raise animals and grow plants. I also took a course in Public Health. I became the director of a social welfare program and we taught mothers about basic tasks that could be applied in their homes. At San Carlos University of Guatemala, I took a course in Hospital Administration. Thanks to this, I learned how to equip and remodel hospitals, and thus help others, especially children in the Elisa Martinez Hospital in Puerto Barrios, Izabal&#8221;, recalls Rogelia, who for seven years was the Administrator of that hospital.\n\n<div id=\"attachment_13103\" style=\"width: 1038px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13103\" class=\"wp-image-13103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2-300x225.png\" alt=\"Two women sitting together\" width=\"1028\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2-1024x769.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2-768x577.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2-1536x1154.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2-2048x1539.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_2-600x451.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1028px) 100vw, 1028px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left, Mrs. Rogelia Mor\u00e1n with a work friend.<\/p><\/div>\n\nThroughout her career, Rogelia educated groups of farmers so that they could learn to better manage their land, animals, and crops. She also educated mothers about the importance of balanced nutrition during breastfeeding and dispelled harmful myths to improve the food security of mothers and their children. Furthermore, Rogelia in the course of her life took many children under her wing, and even informally adopted some of them.\n\n&#8220;I&#8217;ve been a household consultant. I have visited people in difficult and joyful situations and have always found the opportunity to learn something from them. To this day, the desire to teach and organize is still in me. It makes me sad to see resources wasted everywhere when people don&#8217;t have a vision&#8221;, explains Rogelia.\n\n<div id=\"attachment_13098\" style=\"width: 1038px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13098\" class=\"wp-image-13098\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_3-300x198.png\" alt=\"Woman teaching agriculture to girls\" width=\"1028\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_3-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_3-1024x675.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_3-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_3-1536x1013.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_3-2048x1351.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_3-600x396.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1028px) 100vw, 1028px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13098\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do\u00f1a Rogelia teaches agriculture to girls in a school.<\/p><\/div>\n\nAll these examples of teaching and helping others did not fall on deaf ears. Her son, Julio was always behind her, listening and learning from her example.\n\nRogelia recognized that at the early age of 6 years, little Julio had caught on to the idea of helping others. More than once, Rogelia caught him &#8220;stealing&#8221; some eggs to share with a friend, who always mentioned not having been able to have breakfast. &#8220;Those were the actions of a son, seeing his mother who tirelessly helped others. That desire persists in me to this day, I am not tired of helping others, just as my mother taught me. Children learn more by example than by any words we say to them. My mother has taught with her example, about the importance of helping others&#8221;, concludes Julio, moved to tears at having his mother by his side.\n\n<div id=\"attachment_13100\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13100\" class=\"wp-image-13100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_4-232x300.png\" alt=\"Woman and her children\" width=\"605\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_4-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_4-1189x1536.png 1189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do\u00f1a Rogelia is accompanied by her children: 1. Mar\u00eda, 2. Mario, 3. Julio, 4. Boris y 5. Juana.<\/p><\/div>\n\n&#8220;By watching my mother, I figured it was worthwhile to do things for others. At home, there were always people my mother helped. Seeing her always in action formed a restlessness in me over the years. First, to do good, and second to cultivate in me and in the new generations the same seed that she sowed in me. I wanted to do something important and meaningful for the people&#8221;, recalls Julio, moved by the memories.\n\n<span id=\"juliowasgiven\">Julio was given the opportunity to go to college<\/span> in the States, graduated as an Industrial Engineer, and proceeded to get a job at Compaq Computer Corporation.\u00a0 However, he never lost the passion to do something meaningful for his country. Two times he quit his job and tried to do a project in Guatemala, and two times he failed and had to go back to the States and regroup. It wasn\u2019t until the third time that he and his former friends got the seed money to start a project. Bye then he and his friends had thought through many potential projects to help Guatemala. They discussed projects based on health care, the environment, social businesses, and many more <strong>until they landed on education<\/strong>.\n\n<div id=\"attachment_13101\" style=\"width: 1038px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13101\" class=\"wp-image-13101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_5-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Man at graduation\" width=\"1028\" height=\"787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_5-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_5-1024x784.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_5-768x588.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_5-1536x1176.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_5-2048x1568.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_5-600x459.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1028px) 100vw, 1028px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Salazar graduated from Brigham Young University, BYU in 1982.<\/p><\/div>\n\nIn 1997 Julio and his former friends gave life to the <span id=\"rosefoundation\">Rose Foundation<\/span>, now known as Meso Foundation. &#8220;First I defined a goal: education was what we wanted to achieve; thus the mission and vision of the Foundation were born. We focused on the skills and abilities that future generations need to succeed in life and we started from there&#8221;, explains our founder. Meso Foundation\u2019s mission today is \u201cEmpowering the native people of Guatemala with opportunities\u201d and its vision of a \u201c happier, healthier, more prosperous Guatemala.\u201d\n\nSince the beginning, Meso Foundation has sought to pave paths for the new generations and to provide tools for them to take the journey to success. Rogelia&#8217;s advocacy was key in this creation. Her dedication to others and her protective instinct as a mother impacted the lives of many people even outside her own family. Rogelia continues to witness the legacy that she passed on to Julio throughout the growth and success of Colegio Mesoamericano.\n\n<div id=\"attachment_13102\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13102\" class=\"wp-image-13102\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_6-234x300.png\" alt=\"Rogelia continues to witness the legacy that she passed on to Julio throughout the growth and success of Colegio Mesoamericano.\" width=\"530\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_6-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/www.mesofoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_6-768x986.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">During visits to his mother, Julio would chat and enjoy relaxing in the hammocks that Do\u00f1a Rogelia has in her 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