Good morning to all of our HHK supporters, It has been a while since I last wrote to you and we have been very busy at HHk working and helping at the Campesino village during the rainy season, finishing up our school year and introducing a Vacation-Care "camp" type program at the Jungle School and Hogar de Amor with a number of new volunteers, working on the required documents so that we can receive our new van which was donated by the Rotary Club and gathering required permissions to obtain a dispensa which will allow us to unload the most recent container which has been sent by Karl Ralian.  We've been buying needed appliances for the Hogar (washer, refrigerator).  Charlie has been  starting up work again on our Day Care Center / Feeding Station in El Porvenir . . .  and, as always, we've been taking children on outings . . . just to name a few activities.

Since a picture is worth a thousand words, attached are some of the many
children in our various HHK programs.  Your support is helping these kids travel the road out of poverty. 

We have taken the Hogar children to the Cangrejal River area for swimming  and also to Helen's restaurant on the beach to enjoy the 2 pools .   The Grandmas Kids from Porvenir also went to the Cangrejal river to swim, and then to KFC for a chicken lunch and playtime on the jungle gym.

 

A group of 8 children from the Hogar and Jungle School visited the city of Trujillo and stayed overnight inthe Christopher Columbus hotel on Trujillo Bay.  This was a real thrill for them, and they had a ball in the pool with its 3 water slides, visiting the Spanish fort overlooking the bay as well as the museum with thousands of items from Colonial and Mayan times.

 

A group of our Hogar children visited the Campesino Kids  and they all sang songs together.  Our Hogar children are learning to appreciate the difficult conditions that the Campesino children are living under, with their plastic shacks, rain, cold, mud and hunger. 

There are many more activities to report and we will bring those to you very soon.  

As the year is coming to a close, we ask our supporters to remember their sponsored children by bringing their sponsor payments up-to-date and by sending a little something extra so that we can buy small Christmas gifts for the more than 180 children that are supported by your generosity to the HHK programs.

We want to express our sincere appreciation for the help you have given these kids during 2007.  They have come a long way as far as improved health, education and living conditions and many of them are continuing to work hard to learn English and computer skills during the school break.

Thanks for caring,

Dave www.helpinghonduraskids.org