A Stove for Breysi’s Family

Breysi is one of our students that suffers from Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis and kidney failure. She is always anxious to go to school and does not miss a day when she is well enough to attend. Her family was blessed to receive a donation so that a stove could be purchased for them. This makes a huge difference for their family. With her health being so fragile it is very important to keep...

A New stove for Rolando

Rolando’s mother and sisters make about 400 tortillas a day to sell and for their family as well. The stove they had prior was about 12 years old and filled their corn husk room with smoke. For the women and small children working and playing in the kitchen this was a constant health and safety problem. They received a donated stove they was build and installed by a local stove builder. It...

Upate on Flor de Maria’s Family

(( Flor(center) with siblings, with Stephanie, one of their 2 rooms, Flor’s mom beside their stove I hope to start writing updates on children in our school program and their families. Of course this will vary depending on my time here and the amount of people I am able to visit with. I recently went to visit the family of Flor de Maria, she has been in our school program since the...

Pelota sin Palabras (wordless ball)

On Saturday we arrived at Barrio La Cruz and hiked a little ways up to this open field, dusty as it can be, and where it is common to loose your ground, or at least a soccer ball to a very steep slope that goes about 100 feet down. Several adults and a very good number of children were waiting for us there!  As soon as we arrived Rolando gave everybody instructions on how they were supposed to...

2008 School Year Starts!!

Paso a Paso is sponsoring over 120 children to attend school in 2008. The children start their new school year this week. We have over 90 children that we sponsor for elementary school and about 30 children that we sponsor monthly who attend secondary school and beyond. The children are very grateful to those that have contributed to their education through prayer, donations and financial...