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Go Fly a Kite!
Posted by: | CommentsWe are in kite flying season. As is custom in Guatemala, the kids make their own kites, with tissue paper and thin pieces of wood. Amazing these kites can fly like they do but check out the photos of the kids running like the wind with their kites following right behind.
Please don’t forget about our drive for donated gently used Halloween costumes (see the Halloween post below).
Don’t Pack Away Those Halloween Costumes Just Yet!!
Posted by: | CommentsPlease don’t pack away those 2009 Halloween costumes to collect dust and take up space. We have a good place to re-use those costumes for years to come. Many times during the year the kids dress up in costumes for either parties or just as dress up play. The kids at Semillas de Amor would love to have any gently used or new costumes that you have. They will be used for years to come. Any size is great, from infant to adult. Costumes can be sent to:
Jose Carlos Botzoc Crowley
11114 Oberun River Court Drive
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
Please include your name with the costumes so we can send you a thank you note.
We had a wonderful Halloween party on Friday. The kids all dressed up, there was food, candy, games and lots of fun. The photos tell it all!
Monday Morning at Semillas de Amor
Posted by: | CommentsMonday greeted us with good news, a family in California, will be donating funds to pay the salaries of two new teachers. This is very exciting for us and comes at a crucial time, both in the children’s development and for the 6 week training our teachers will be involved in during October and November. Many of you know Luvia who works with Semillas de Amor, she is my right hand person. Well, Luvia loves kids and loves to teach so she will be attending the teacher training and working as a teacher, teaching the kids English beginning in late November.
In the next few weeks I will post more information on our new education program and a list of supplies we will be needing if anyone would like to help out. We really want to be able to open our school to children in the community but that takes resources and is our goal. It is exciting to open an “official” school.
For those of you who might be wondering if we ever got our electricity, the answer is no. The Empresa Electrica has made our lives a nightmare with requests for one document after another. They clearly do not want us to have the right of way. What they do want is for us to pay to bring posts all the way down the road from the nearest line. First, we don’t have the money for that and secondly why should we pay for everyone else’s electricity installment? We do not have that kind of money. It appears the that Empresa Electrica could care less and the legal department within that organization cares even less. If we had the funding we would have as much solar as possible but the upfront costs can be high. We have solar hot water heaters, we will have solar perimeter lighting (it will be here in a few weeks) and hopefully a solar pump that pumps water from the cistern to the home.
Our garden continues to grow and expand. The kids “polished off” 100 broccoli plants and continued to love broccoli. Our cabbage, cauliflower, peppers and lots of other veggies are sprouting up and getting ready for the kitchen. We are doing as much organic as possible. But it takes learning a new way in order to let go of the old ways. So as we search for new and better ways to grow our veggies we can let go of the toxic pesticides used so frequently in Guatemalan agriculture.
We are still in need of your support and appreciate the kindness and generosity of so many people. Without you, we would not be able to exist. To make a donation to Semillas de Amor please click on Save Semillas.
Thank you.
