Finally, Our Move to the Children’s Village
ByFinally, after months and months of waiting, on February 19th, 2009 we began our move to Parramos and our new home. Still no electricity and running on a new propane generator and solar we made the big move. One can only imagine, and now there are a lot of us with first hand experience, in moving 50 children and all their stuff. Truck load after truck load and nobody, that is anyone who was of walking age, got away without helping. The work was exhausting and back breaking and took days and days to get things organized. We are still working on getting things put away but the home is beautiful.
The kids are happy. Running and playing on our 3 1/2 acres. Total freedom. They get very, very dirty but I have never seen them so happy and having so much fun. There is still lots to do, painting, gardens, fencing and more but we have time.
A huge thank you to everyone who helped fund this new home for our kids and to those who worked so very, very hard to make the move happen and in many ways against all odds!
2 Comments
April 16th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Dear Nancy
We met three years ago through Katy Pokorny. We were about to meet a little girl that we later went on to adopt in Guatamala. Until the recent law changes in Guatamala and the subsequent stop that Britain has placed on adoptions from Guatamala we had hoped to come back to you to adopt again. That apart I have been hearing all about the childrens village and your work from Katy and would very much like to help in some way. I work for a company called Designers Guild in the UK and we have so many different childrens fabrics and bedlinens. I thought perhaps you might like some for your new home. Pillow cases, sheets duvet covers etc. Or just yards and yards of fabric. We are hoping to come over with Maria at the end of the year and would very much like to visit you anyway but would very much like to help.
Kind regards
Jo Willer
April 27th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
Hi Jo, I do remember you very well. It has been such a rough year but we are at the children’s village in Parramos, which we do love. We would LOVE donations of fabric, sheets, pillow cases or duvet covers. Your fabrics would be such a treat for us. We do have a place in the States that will receive items for us and then ship them to us in Guatemala if you wanted to ship anything. Thank you so much for thinking of us. You can always reach me at my email, nancy@semillasdeamor.org. We look forward to seeing you at the end of the year. Nancy