The Daisy Mae Guardaria (Daycare Center) was built in San Telmo (where we have our Thursday outreach) by a group from Canada over 2 years ago (I believe it was the summer before I moved here). Anyways, it has been a long hard struggle to get this place cleared by the government and up and running (lots of work these days after another daycare center was not up to code and burned down with children trapped inside). It has been one lawyer fee after another for over two years as we have done everything the legal way to make sure everything would be safe for the kids.
Pastor Santos’ wife, Sara (pictured), has agreed to be the director of the guardaria and has brought on one other helper named Leti who will be doing most of the cooking (daily breakfast and lunch) and cleaning while Sara will be doing more of the teaching. So far, eight children have been signed up for this daycare program (allowing space for only two more). This should be such a great blessing to the entire families of these children as it will allow parents to go to work in the fields (which usually both have to do in order for families to survive) and the older siblings to be able to go to school (it’s not rare to find that a few kids in each family may be pulled out of school to stay home and raise the babies themselves). Praise the Lord for this blessing! Pastor Santos and Sara are praying that this (and the principles that are being taught to these children in the daycare) will be a witness to some of the non-Christian parents of the students.
It brought so much happiness to my heart today to be able to visit the kids (along with Judy, Paul, Victor, Saul and Amber and their two kids, Kaden and Brielle) on their first day at the guardaria. We had a little dedication prayer with the children and then played for a bit with them. It was so fun, those little kiddos are so cute! I wish I had more pictures to share with you, but my camera battery died.
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