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A Family Receives a New Home!
RICARDO’s FAMILY We met Ricardo’s family in 2002 when his wife started coming to the clinic with their youngest child, a small baby girl....
Funds Low-Can You Please Help
I want to thank all of Hands of Hope supporters that have been so faithful to help the people of the villages we have worked in since ...
Blankets for Christmas!
The following week after prenatal clinic in the furtherest village of Yalu, we had an outreach to the elderly people in two other...
Is Insulin a Christmas Gift?
Most of us wouldn’t think of insulin as a Christmas gift, but to Miguel it was the best gift of all. The Monday after Christmas, Maria...
Christmas Miracle in the Village
We had our first Christmas miracle on the Saturday before Christmas. I got a late-night call Wednesday, and learned that a mother who was...
PACO DIED TODAY
At 11 am in the hospital, Paco said he was fine, had no pain, except for a sharp pain in his stomach. He said he was feeling peaceful....
Paco – our main ministry worker – grave heart condition
Paco is the husband of Rosario, who has worked with us in the clinic for ten years. We rely on Paco so much, and he is in the hospital in...
The 1,000,000 Banana Give-Away
We received access to 1,000,000 bananas (and one container was stolen) thanks to the Chiquita Banana Company; the program is managed...
Crippled by Bus
This family might qualify as perhaps the poorest family we’ve met. The father was a “helper” on a bus, but fell off and was run over. He...
Little Burn Victim
It’s a blessing to be able to provide general health care to thousands of indigenous families in “our” villages. But so many times, the...
Boys & Girls Scouts – now 167 children!
Paco – along with his wife Rosario and their two teens Alejandra and Paco, Jr. – work all day each Saturday to hold a day of activities...
They Came from…. Kentucky!
A group from Kentucky Adoption Services came to visit for a day and were a great blessing to the people of the village. This group ...
Who forces children to sleep on dirt floors?
The reality of the life of a child in the villages is that there simply is no money for the ‘basic’ needs of life. Many don’t have ...
“The $40 Bed Project”- still growing!
. . . Good Christmas Gift – more than 1,100 children in our one village must sleep on a cold, damp dirt floor? The same in the other two...
“Space Age” solar comes to the Village
Stan, our very mission-minded friend from Colorado, came to visit, help and work for two weeks at end of April, first week of May. The...
Village Life in Pictures
Carrying firewood in rural Guatemala It seems like we notice something new and interesting each time we drive up into the mountains to...
Tough job carrying bags of concrete uphill
The houses that needed floors were up the side of a mountain and for one, we had to walk along an open sewer. And for each, we had to...
Why was this old lady so thankful? (tears?)
It wouldn’t seem like such a big deal for most of us – but she thanked us with tears in her eyes. Don't go by her smile - Enecia was very...
School Kitchen – no food for the children?
The construction of the new school kitchen in our village is coming along. We received a generous donation from the Mike B family which...
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