I was just updating student's pages on the Mayan Families website, when I saw this photo. I remember these children very well. I was at the Mayan Families offices in Panajachel, Guatemala in July 2010 when they first went there. Their mother had died and they needed help to attend school. I remember Gloria gave them some things that I had brough as donations so I went to look for the photos... and I saw I had given them one of the tarps Don had bought at Home Depot to bring with us. I looked at this photo again and I saw that perhaps that same tarp we gave them was the one in the background, protecting the beds from the open holes on the wall! I remember how excited they had been to get that tarp. Well, if it is not the same tarp, I am sure they needed it and they used it well. I am so grateful to all the people who support Mayan Families and Don and I when we go there. Every single thing that is given to us to send or bring to Guatemala is needed, gratefully received and well used.
These photos were taken by me in July 2010. Gloria found a sweater or jacket for each child in the group. They had come from a town far away from Panajachel, all of them needed help to attend school.
All these children were given donations that had been given to our family to bring to Guatemala.
