August Newletter

Casa de Espernza

Making a difference, one child at a time

P.O. Box 9222

Columbus, MS 39705

cdehonduras.org http://casastore.blogspot.com

In July, there were many visitors on campus as groups came to do work projects or just visit the kids. The kids were spoiled by the end of the summer. One group came and made cotton candy. A couple of groups did hot dogs and chips. One took the kids to town for fried chicken, one to the movies, one to the water park, one to the river for a picnic and swimming. One group came to Casa and held a VBS. The kids are always excited when they get to go on an outing and when people come to visit.

Thank you to all the groups that visited Casa and/or took them on an outing. Everything was greatly appreciated by the children.

School continues and it won't be long until third quarter exams start. Seems like we just finished second quarter exams. Most of the kids participated in Indian day at school. Adonis did not get to start school. He is working on his reading, writing and arithmetic at home.

Dalys, our counselor, resigned. She is expecting a baby in September. At present, we do not have plans to look for another counselor.

August brought much excitement at Casa de Esperanza. It is the rainy season. One afternoon it rained about five inches in one hour. The church building flooded and a rock wall broke on the front of the property. Fortunately, there was little damage at Casa. Mirian's house flooded and she spent hours mopping water.

Brayan had to have an emergency circumcision and Fernando had to have a few stitches around his eye. Brayan had to have a few days bed rest. Both boys are recovering.

Along with floods and emergency surgeries and stitches, came two new children. We had been waiting on these two for weeks. Any(Annie) and Yair are another brother-sister team. Any is 3 ½ years old, the same age as Josue. She is smaller than Josue. Yair is eighteen months. He, too, is a tiny little thing. They both have asthma and he was in the hospital a few weeks ago, which is one of the reasons we had to wait. They have come from extreme poverty.

Any

Yair

This month I would like you to meet Guadalupe, also known as Lupe or Lupita. She is our little Dora. Lupita is six years old and is in kindergarten. She and her brother, Adonis came to live at Casa in April.

She had been neglected and physically abused. She is very hard to understand. Karen understands more of what she says than I do. She will be starting speech therapy at Teleton in October. Lupe is one of the slowest people I have ever seen. She eats slowly and is always the last one at the table. She dresses slowly. She make her bed slowly. As slow as she is, she is a little sweetheart and has stolen the hearts of everyone at Casa. Please pray for her continued adjustment and that her speech therapy will be beneficial.

Thank you for your continued prayers, support and encouragement. There would be no Casa de Esperanza without all of you.

Please feel free to share this newsletter. If you have any questions regarding Casa, please email me at terriltindall@yahoo.com

Sincerely,

Terri Tindall