Dany is Margareta’s youngest son. He has a congenital deformity of his foot that will be operated on by Children of the Americas as a donation of care in January. Meanwhile, Dany is very happy to have enough food for the month.
The words on this post start here because this is a half-picture. I was importing photos of Manuela and her widowed mother into our data base. I went onto start printing them, but I forgot to set my printer default to the smaller size. When her photo started emerging from my printer, I abruptly stopped…
Today was one of those days that I needed for catching up. After hosting a large family gathering, my laundry room was full, the dishwasher was running non-stop and the dogs were in the mood for some much-needed attention. Flower beds needed weeding, the car was dirty and somewhere in the day, I had to…
We thought you might enjoy seeing the lovely face of Catarina, the 22 year old who is holding her new hearing aide, which was made possible through our donors.
These photos are of the same FFF mother. I took the photo (below, center) two years ago while doing home visits with our team. The photo below that was taken two weeks ago. To keep these photos in perspective, Maria has the worst case of diabetes we have yet encountered in Guatemala. Diabetics that are…
Rearranging them did no good. Positioning them narrow-end-down was useless. My desire to have these avocados fit into the intended bowl was a wasted expenditure of energy. They were not going to stay where I wanted them to stay, no matter how determined I was for an artistic outcome. Working in developing countries feels very…
With his slight overbite and his unkempt hair he was simply the cutest Guatemalan toddler we had seen in many a year of volunteering with Mayan children. He radiated the calm demeanor of a child who was well-loved and happy to be included in a life that he didn’t yet realize was sparse. When we…