La nueva INDEPENDENCIA
Guatemala
About La Nueva Independencia
La Nueva Independencia means “The New Independence” in Spanish. This community gained its independence from a neighboring community, Chiantla.
It took them more than 10 years (1995-2005) to officially separate.
Coffee is the main crop in the community. Some community members work as electricians and blacksmiths. All families in the community are close and help each other. Most mothers work at the home.
La Nueva Independencia has partnered with 410 Bridge since 2018.
Their Community Goals
- Education Supplies and Training to Help Their Children
- Children’s Bible Camp for Continued Spiritual Development
- Water Tank Repairs
- Continued Leadership Council Training on How To Best Serve Their People
Where is La Nueva Independencia located?
The village of La Nueva Independencia in the municipality of Unión Cantinil, department of Huehuetenango located in the western highlands of Guatemala.
Sponsor the Community of La Nueva
When you sponsor the La Nueva community through 410 Bridge, you support programs and projects that allow the people to fix their own unique set of barriers. Every chance we get, we want to empower and lift up people to recognize that God has given them giftings and skills to move their communities forward to a better and more self-sustaining place.
Sponsoring the La Nueva community, whether for $18, $23, $35, or more a month, allows for this to happen.
Stories from La Nueva Independencia
From 410 Day to the Mountains of Guatemala
High in the mountains of Unión Cantinil, Guatemala, lie the villages of Las Lomas, La Nueva Independencia, and El Triunfo. Here, families have long lived on the edge of survival—sometimes with just enough, often with less.
In these communities, more than half of the population lives in poverty. One in six families cannot even afford the minimum cost of food. Jobs are scarce. Women are often left behind. And perhaps most painful of all, many people have come to believe that their situation is permanent. That they were born to survive, not to thrive.
But hopelessness is not the end of the story.
Ingri’s Story of Faith, Leadership, and Community Transformation
At just 28 years old, Ingri is already a powerful force for change in her community of Nueva Independencia. A wife, a mother, and a leader, she carries within her a passion for service that runs deep—one she inherited from her parents, Doña Florinda and Don Eleuterio, both respected members of the 410 Bridge Leadership Council.
The Woman Who Prayed Over Her Rabbits—And Watched Them Multiply
In the highlands of La Nueva Independencia, lives Doña Everarda Carrillo Velasquez, a 67-year-old woman whose life has been shaped by hard work, unshakable faith, and a deep love for the land. For thirty-five years, she stood faithfully by her husband, who lived with Alzheimer’s for fourteen of them. Today, with her feet rooted in the soil and her heart lifted to God, Everarda keeps moving forward.
“God gives me strength,” she says with a conviction that comes from deep within.
Last year, Doña Florinda Jimenez, a member of the Leadership Council, encouraged Everarda and her son to join a Foundations for Farming course. At first, she hesitated “Me? In an agriculture course?” but something stirred in her heart, and she decided to try. During the training, she visited a farm focused on animal husbandry, and something clicked. She was especially drawn to rabbit farming, and from that moment, she felt called to raise animals herself.
