Our History
Then some friends and family members became aware of the scholarship program for needy children and asked to participate. Some helped by mentoring a group of students, others by sponsoring one or more students. As word has spread about the success of the program more have joined us in this work of love.
Each year since 2015, Fundación Equity Guatemala (FUNDEQ) has scholarshipped over 100 underprivileged students in Guatemala. In 2022 the foundation scholarshipped 140 students.
In January 2019 the Justices began setting the groundwork for operating the Fundación Equity Honduras (FUNDEQH) Scholarship program in Honduras. They chose Yuscarán, El Paraíso, Honduras as the beginning of Fundación Equity Honduras (FUNDEQH) in Honduras. In May, Lynn Justice began interviewing potential volunteers to shepherd the first group of students. In July 2019 the Rebecca and Christopher Talbot's family travelled to Yuscarán to interview potential scholarship candidates. They gathered the supporting documents and completed applications for 24 candidates, of which 21 were selected from four rural communities near the town of Yuscarán.
In January 2020, the 21 students, their parents and the volunteers held their first meeting in a congregational meeting room provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days of Yuscaran. There the families heard motivational talks, were instructed on how the program works, and given their first monthly Scholarship stipend for each family.
In 2022, the scholarship program supported 40 students from underprivileged families in the Yuscarán, Honduras area and also founded a Honduran non profit foundation, "Fundación Equity Honduras (FUNDEQH)”.
The founding of FUNDACIÓN EQUITY (FUNDEQ) in 2011 was the formalization of a charitable work that had been ongoing since Lynn and Bonita's arrival in Guatemala in 1985.
In addition attending public schools in poor areas helping finance the school service projects, the Justices began selecting and funding underprivileged students to schools in poor areas surrounding Guatemala City and some rural areas in the interior of the country. Up until 2011, it was just Bonita and Lynn.