Carolina’s Story A widow with two teenage boys. Daughter died at birth. Family home sold by deceased husband (alcoholic) before his death. Terroristic threatening by the loan sharks left the family vulnerable during the midnight raids by men demanding repayment. The anxiety and depression and lack of supervision for her sons during her long workweek…
It is the end of another year of administrating our organization, and what a challenging one it was. Collectively, our board struggled with the loss of an adult child and the wedding of another; a husband’s surgery and a board member’s cancer scare; the loss of grant opportunities balanced by the generosity of donors who…
This is Ana. She is twenty years old and the mother of a cherubic and stoic three-year old son. Ana is slender and beautiful and her child makes your heart skip a beat when you glide into his liquid brown eyes and allow yourself to envision a life of promise for him. Loving Ana in…
Earlier this month, a volcanic event in Guatemala made the international news. For a tiny country in Central America that typically escapes public notice, being in the forefront of televised information indicated a significant and catastrophic incident had occurred, and indeed it had. CNN Article on eruption of Fuego Written records of devastation caused by this…
Their photographs absorb space in the recesses of our computer hardware as well as my own cerebral gray matter. Some photo files document our long-term, current relationships with the mothers and their children in Finding Freedom through Friendship. Other images are the only tangible proof that a friendship ever existed; photos showing that we at…