Post by tomcamp on Jul 27, 2006 7:04:42 GMT -5
Limon Soup Kitchen: July '06
Three years ago one of our teams visited Limon Honduras on a routine medical mission. Our local Pastor, Rev. David, and our local coordinator, Douglas Goff, pointed out to Danny and Brenda Arnold that there were orphan kids, some 65 of them, who didn't have a regular place to eat or anyone with the funding to feed them daily. These kids literally walked from house to house in the village with their little plastic bowls asking for food.
Most of the kids moms and dads died from the ravages of AIDS, which unfortunately is very prevalent in Honduras.
In addition, there were some 35 widow women with no means of getting regular food.
I visited the homes of a 7 year old girl and her 75 year old grandmother. The only other relative was the young girls uncle who lived in a mud/thatch hut next door and was dying of AIDS. The girl and her grandmother got up at 4 A.M., they both walked for 5 miles to gather food for a fire. They then returned to home, madding tortillas by hand which the girl then carried from house to house and sold for 1 cents each. This was all before school started.
The Limon Soup Kitchen (Family Unity) was formed to help with the horrible problem. The kids and widows are fed two meals each week and given a multivitamin with each feeding. The feeding takes place in the local church of Pastor David. The funding is by donations from various medical teams who visit the area.
This past summer, the church began to have the kids stay in the church after the meal and have tutoring by the church members and some of the local school teachers. From this was born the idea of a library in the church building. We ask each team that goes to Limon to ask each team member to bring one Spanish book to put into the library there.
What they don't have are reference books. The program is growing very nicely, but no one has brought any reference books.e
If we could add a set of Spanish Encyclopedias to the library, it would be the only one in the entire Colon area.
What a blessing it would be to the orphan kids.
Michael Franklin came up with the idea getting Spanish Encyclopedias for the soup kitchen. If you want to be part of this project contact him at Michael Franklin: frankmj@millsaps.edu
If you want to donate books or other items for the Limon Soup Kitchen contact Dr. Tom Camp: llamacamp@hughes.net.
Three years ago one of our teams visited Limon Honduras on a routine medical mission. Our local Pastor, Rev. David, and our local coordinator, Douglas Goff, pointed out to Danny and Brenda Arnold that there were orphan kids, some 65 of them, who didn't have a regular place to eat or anyone with the funding to feed them daily. These kids literally walked from house to house in the village with their little plastic bowls asking for food.
Most of the kids moms and dads died from the ravages of AIDS, which unfortunately is very prevalent in Honduras.
In addition, there were some 35 widow women with no means of getting regular food.
I visited the homes of a 7 year old girl and her 75 year old grandmother. The only other relative was the young girls uncle who lived in a mud/thatch hut next door and was dying of AIDS. The girl and her grandmother got up at 4 A.M., they both walked for 5 miles to gather food for a fire. They then returned to home, madding tortillas by hand which the girl then carried from house to house and sold for 1 cents each. This was all before school started.
The Limon Soup Kitchen (Family Unity) was formed to help with the horrible problem. The kids and widows are fed two meals each week and given a multivitamin with each feeding. The feeding takes place in the local church of Pastor David. The funding is by donations from various medical teams who visit the area.
This past summer, the church began to have the kids stay in the church after the meal and have tutoring by the church members and some of the local school teachers. From this was born the idea of a library in the church building. We ask each team that goes to Limon to ask each team member to bring one Spanish book to put into the library there.
What they don't have are reference books. The program is growing very nicely, but no one has brought any reference books.e
If we could add a set of Spanish Encyclopedias to the library, it would be the only one in the entire Colon area.
What a blessing it would be to the orphan kids.
Michael Franklin came up with the idea getting Spanish Encyclopedias for the soup kitchen. If you want to be part of this project contact him at Michael Franklin: frankmj@millsaps.edu
If you want to donate books or other items for the Limon Soup Kitchen contact Dr. Tom Camp: llamacamp@hughes.net.