{"id":1455,"date":"2020-12-24T17:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/?page_id=1455"},"modified":"2020-12-24T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T17:22:18","slug":"year-end-report-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.crhf.org\/es\/year-end-reports\/year-end-report-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Year end report 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"234\" height=\"90\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1482\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Year End Report 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year since 1994, I have the privilege and honor to review all the\nmoments of the last twelve months.&nbsp;&nbsp; The\nchallenge is how to show these moments to people who are not here or don\u2019t\nshare physical time and space with us.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"131\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1459\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Israel is one of our first students<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"103\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1460\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Our grandmothers pose with a group in the Centro Modelo<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general, this year was one of our most positive ones.&nbsp; All our programs continued and got stronger\nand we discovered new needs to be met. &nbsp;Many of our past beneficiaries came back to\nvisit with their children and grandchildren to thank us for what we did for\nthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Food<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the support of the Auto Mercado chain of supermarkets, we are\nnow providing food to nearly &nbsp;1,000\npeople a week.&nbsp; Each day our vans with a\ndriver and a helper go to four different Auto Mercados.&nbsp; We are donated an in-kind equivalent of\nbetween $400 and $500.&nbsp; This includes\nfruits, vegetables, prepared foods, bread, pastry, juice, cakes and roasted\nchicken.&nbsp; These donations are brought\nback to our main center in La Carpio.&nbsp; On\ntwo days a week, one of the vans stops to give donations to a daycare center in\nthe community of Leon Xiii which serves 180 children per day.&nbsp; When the food arrives in la Carpio, a team\nhelps to carry the baskets up the stairs and we prepare two bags of food for\neach beneficiary.&nbsp; These include single\nmothers heads of household, elderly, refugees, multi child families and people\nliving on the streets.&nbsp; If there are any greens\nleft over, we bring them to the local animal rescue center We then prepare a\nhealthy lunch for the kids in our daycare center and all our colaborators.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1461\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>One day a week the children make their own sandwiches.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The children at our daycare center receive the food as well as the other\ncenters that we have in La Carpio.&nbsp; They\nget a healthy snack every day and a hot lunch before leaving for home or school.\nOnce a week, we host a lunch for forty refugees from Nicaragua and every day\nall the people who help us run our centers can have lunch.&nbsp; In addition, our grandmother\u2019s group has\nmeetings once a week, which include a lunch.&nbsp;\nThe grand total being 1,120 people per week. This program has provided\nmore than just food.&nbsp; We have been able\nto teach all our beneficiaries about the importance of hygiene, healthy food\npreparation, the presence of vegetables in our diet, the use of quinoa,\nasparagus, broccoli, mushrooms and whole-wheat products.&nbsp; Every day we share recipes and ideas on how\nto prepare food.&nbsp; For example, recently\nwe got a big donation of celery.&nbsp; We gave\nideas about how to use the celery in fresh juice or omelets.&nbsp; The joy that this food brings&nbsp; us cannot be emphasized enough.&nbsp; Every day is like Christmas for all of us as\nwe take the food out of the baskets and place them into the bags<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"133\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1462\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>One of our hot lunches prepared for the children.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Auto Mercado has also been donating dry goods like rice, beans,\npasta, sauces and cleaning supplies. These are also donated to the populations\nwe serve so they can afford toe at more regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shelter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the area of providing dignified housing, we began educating all our\nbeneficiaries with a workshop called \u201cCuerpo Sano, Casa Sana\u201d.&nbsp; This workshop included ideas and practical assistance\nin keeping our bodies clean through regular hand washing, shampoo, use of\ndeodorant, clean clothing.&nbsp; This is a\nparticular challenge in La Carpio because we don\u2019t always have water on\ndemand.&nbsp; In the Casa Sana worship, participants\nlearned to take a survey of their own homes and see where the secret unhygienic\nspaces are.&nbsp; They then applied this to\nthe classrooms and places they work.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We upgraded ten different houses this year, including putting in floors,\nroofs, stronger walls and internal divisions.&nbsp;\nEach of these upgrades was designed to make the living space healthier\nand more dignified.&nbsp; Separating a room\nfor a mother and her teenage son, putting the children in their own sleeping\nspace, dividing a multi family home so each of the mothers could have their own\nspace for their children.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, we finished a complete build for one family, giving them a concrete\nprefab house with a beautiful food, floor and back yard.&nbsp; Now, nearly all of our collaborators have a\nbeautiful house to call their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We painted over 100 houses during the year and gave plants and flowers\nto over 200 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Health Care<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an essential part of our program and we were able to provide\nhealth checks to over 2,000 people complete with extensive health interviews,\ndiagnosis, and correct medicines.&nbsp; In\naddition we gave dental care to nearly 500 people including the indigenous\ngroups we work with and eyeglasses to another 800.&nbsp; We now have a medical file for most of the\npeople we have been seeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1464\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>People line up outside the clinic we provided for them in the indigenous area.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Health Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we interview people, we see the trends and have learned to anticipate\nthe kinds of chronic problems the people have.&nbsp;\nMostly they are diabetes, high blood pressure and chronic pain.&nbsp; We work with the people to explore ways they\ncan help themselves to have a better quality of life through exercise, yoga,\nbetter diet and vitamins, which we provide.&nbsp;\nWe have found that people become less stressed just by being able to\ntell their life stories and by feeling honored with our intense listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another situation of health education and care was helping our long time\nbeneficiary from the days of the street kids to come back to life after his\ndiagnosis of HIV and cancer and tuberculosis and bronchitis. He was in the\nprison when he called and told me in a small voice about the diagnosis&nbsp; &nbsp;When I\nwent to see him, he could barely walk or speak.&nbsp;\nI spent every Sunday with him as he grew stronger, learned about his\ndisease and used the meds they gave him.&nbsp;\nI am so proud of him for overcoming this disease which has so much\nprejudice against it and begin to study, to help take care of the prison garden\nand looking just great.&nbsp; And we shared\nmany hours of quiet talks, and writings &nbsp;&nbsp;I hope to publish his story some day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"217\" height=\"162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1466\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Children in our Centers participate in yoga and meditation classes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This component continues to be our strong suit as we provide daily education to hundreds of children at our various Family Well Being Centers.&nbsp; We work with infant stimulation, preschool, elementary school with homework support.&nbsp; Our Instituto Carpiano de Idiomas is a well-known entity in La Carpio now and we have students of all ages learning English vocabulary and descriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1467\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Young children are supervised and guided to work with\nmaterials that are appropriate for their age.&nbsp;\nAt the end of the year, children are given a diploma at a ceremony where\nthe parens come ad share with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"115\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1468\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Our teachers have created a real Montessori classroom as supervised by a certified Montessori teacher.&nbsp; Six teachers are receiving this formal Montessori training and are combining it with their own creative educational model in order to meet the real needs of the children in these low-income communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1469\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>We have been donated real quality Montesori materials to use with our students.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1470\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Children learn about the heartbreak of 9-11.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"185\" height=\"105\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1471\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The kids learn \u201chome is where the heart is\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year in May we received a group of children who came to Costa Rica after living the trauma of their situation in Nicargua.&nbsp; These children had witnessed the violence in the streets and several of them saw their own fathers murdered.&nbsp; We placed a great deal of emphasis on the healing from Trauma program that we developed and were able to stabilize and normalize these students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1472\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Individual counseling is provided when needed<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art and theater have not been forgotten in our education centers as the\nchildren celebrate the Costa Rican holidays, social events and birthdays with\nplays, drawings, and presentations.&nbsp; We\nhave created the first children\u2019s choir in La Carpio with our children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Training<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have had &nbsp;a variety of\nworkshops presented by private organizations, government personnel and&nbsp; even university students. Our collaborators\nare now experts who are ready to give their own workshops to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Small business enterprises<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We try to find ways for anyone who wants to find work.&nbsp; We provide resumes, bus fare, preparation, c;lothing,\njob searches, and small financing.&nbsp; For\nexample, one of our women got a little machine to squeeze oranges. She sold\nglasses of fresh orange juice and is now able to open her own little\nrestaurant.&nbsp; We give the men work in\nwhatever handy work we need done and they always help us with the home upgrades\nand constructions.&nbsp; This year the Kaplan\nFoundation emplyeed thirty of our refugee population with very dignified work\nfor three months while finishing his new office building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group of &nbsp;refugees has been\nworking hard on producing their business plan to be presented as a way to make\na living wage.&nbsp; They are all requesting a\nstart up fund of $80 and intend to double their money every week.&nbsp; These initiatives are humble \u2013 making\ntortillas, selling cheese, making tamales, making pi\u00f1atas are just some of the\nideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The refugees are also taking part in our book publishing enterprise as\nthey work with us to tell the story of their childhood in Nicaragua, their participation\nin the wars, their flight to Costa Rica and their time living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The artisan women are producing new products all the time and have been selling with moderate success to volunteers and supporters. Their newest work is to create hand-sewn squares with their life story on them. Also, Francis has sold seven of her animal alphabet quilts with an animal to match every letter of the alphabet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1473\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Francis is rightfully proud of the amazing handwork she does.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Empathy, Compassion and Self Esteem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We constantly explore with everyone in our Foundation their own life purpose\nand the importance they have in the world&nbsp;\nThe grandmothers have presented their play more than 500 times over the\nyears and this is used to educate others about the situation of being a refugee\nor being the mother of a child using drugs.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our workshops about Abuse and its truly harmful effects have been\npresented to over 200 people and they are all grateful for the support we give\nthem.&nbsp; The refugee especially are engaged\nin these workshops since they are fleeing from government abuse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our indigenous groups continue to challenge and intrigue and guide us to\nunderstand our true place in nature and the role we have to play in protecting\nall the living things on this planet.&nbsp; The\nEco camp program takes place at our Finca Hope and gives children the chance to\nexperience activities in nature.&nbsp;\nUnbelievably, as part of his master\u2019s thesis program, Fransisco got two\nbig grants for the Foundation.&nbsp; One is\nfrom the Swiss government to upgrade the bridge we built 13 years ago and\nanother is from the Japanese government to provide clean constant running water\nin the homes in three communities and a clinic in each of six communities in\nthe Chirripo area of Talamanca.&nbsp; This\ngrant is from the people of Japan to the indigenous people of Costa Rica\nand&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1474\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Children and volunteers share an eco camp experience<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, the main thing we do is show the people who visit us, how to provide\nsupport through goods, services and financing that life can be filled with\nhope.&nbsp; There may be hard times, times\nwhen we want to give up\u2026but that if we work together, we can make changes to\nourselves, our families, out communities and our countries.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>( More than a ) Sports League<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would also like to feature for this year, the wonderful coach and youth of our Rescale soccer league.&nbsp; For more than ten years, we have accompanied Pedro in his work as coach while he leads this group of 100 boys through their games, their training sessions, their talk times, their defeats and their victories.&nbsp; Pedro has been the mainstay of this program and has dedicated his life to making sure all these boys stay in school, study, work, and lead a decent life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"92\" height=\"162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1475\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"204\" height=\"133\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1476\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>The boys do community service once a month helping either at the finca or in La Carpio.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Administration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We continue to keep up to date with our financials and our reports to\nthe tax and treasury departments of the country.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this year we had some extra help from Francisco my son who was\ncompleting his Master\u2019s degree from the University of Peace and chose to do his\nthesis and course work by becoming an intern for the Foundation. He upgraded\nthe webpage, improved the Facebook, did an impact study of the Foundation, and\ncame up with a myriad of ideas for projects, funding and general support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We now have an advisory board made up of a business person, a grant writer and a political person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1477\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Gail often meets with leaders of other organizations or projects<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Volunteers and Donors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again we thank all of you who so loyally continued to support us on\nour sacred mission.&nbsp; Gary Kaplan has been\nkind in so many ways by putting on roofs, sponsoring lunches for refugees,\nsupporting our education program through monthly subsidy and helping our sports\nteam with a monthly stipend.&nbsp; We are\nlooking forward to finishing our year with the annual Mega Christmas\ncelebration sponsored by Gary!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeff Fisher once again comes into sight when our funding is low and he is\nsable to sell a house. HIs loyalty and support over the years are so much\nappreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Palmedo Family Foundation and the Epstein Family foundation have\nbeen helping us over the years with their kind donations during months when we\nhave no other source of income.&nbsp; We are\nso glad that they are happy with our use of their funds and they are assured of\ntheir appropriate use.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volunteers\u2026what can be said to these wonderful kids and their teachers and companies who make the decision to spend their free time with us, learning, teaching, building, painting, playing, crying, sharing, being.&nbsp; Each year the experience with and for volunteers gets more intense and deeper.&nbsp; As we learn more about the true root of abuse and true deep effect of poverty we share with our visitors and are heartened by their active listening and compassionate actions with us.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"162\" height=\"121\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crhf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1478\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Volunteers give all of us a boost to our energy and a iight in the dark.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We finish our orientation seminar for volunteers with the concept of\nRight Action and share together the true meaning of compassion in action.&nbsp; We have learned that RA, who was the sun God\nof the Egyptians, means shining our light in all the dark places of the world.\nAnd indeed, there have been some dark places lately.&nbsp; But no matter, because these kids are ready\nto go. Ready to go to the places where there is darkness in order to bring\nhope.&nbsp; La Carpio is soon becoming the\ntrue place of light it was meant to be thanks to all the resources and energy\nthat has been put here.&nbsp; Thank you from\nthe deep heart of all of us.&nbsp; We\nsincerely hope that you will be inspired by what we have shown you here and can\ndonate something to keep our work going strong.&nbsp;\nIt is a big job to eradicate poverty.&nbsp;\nBut, here we are.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christmas Celebration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will end the year with our annual Christmas event\nsponsored by the Gary and Holly Kaplan Foundation&nbsp; This year we will be adding even more participants\nwith our refugee group and our the staff at the Auto Mercado which helps us so\nmuch with all our food projects. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nystrom Family<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of every year report I tell something about my own\nfamily\u2026Felipe, my older son became the champion bicycle competitor of all of Costa\nRica this year.&nbsp; Sara, my daughter,\nblessed us with a lovely baby girl named Emma of which her mother and father\nare so proud.&nbsp; And Fransisco completed\nhis Master\u2019s degree at the University of Peace.&nbsp;\nMy whole family came to visit Costa Rica together and had a wild time\nwith me, keeping up with all the goings on here. It was all so wonderful to\nexperience.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Favorite volunteer story of the year..<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of African American volunteers from DC come to work with\nus.&nbsp; I begin my normal orientation speech\nand notice the slouching, the eye rolls and the yawns.&nbsp; And, yes, I say to myself, what are YOU, an\nold white woman going to teach these kids anyhow?&nbsp; Who do you think you are?&nbsp; So\u2026I ditch the speech and say, you know,\nkids, I think you have to teach me stuff. So\u2026what worries you, what upsets you,\nwhat makes you feel crazy..and without one moment of hesitation, one of the\ngirls says, my brother was killed by the police.&nbsp; OK\u2026so we go off on a tangent.&nbsp; And we talk and talk and talk.&nbsp; And I listen and listen and listen.&nbsp; This is it, the real thing.&nbsp; Kids who go through what I see on TV all the\ntime.&nbsp; And how lively and lovely and\nfunny and bright and active and outgoing they all are. And I connect with\ntheirk suffering because I tell them about my street children who were also\nmurdered.&nbsp; &nbsp;I really really like them.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next day\u2019s activity is to go to the plant nursery and get pants to\nbring back to the kids of Carpio. Needless to say it was an amazing morning.\nThey walked through the nursery with me, helped the men to make soil with horse\ncaca in it..We laughed and joked.&nbsp; As we\nwere leaving, I said, do you want to ask me anything else?&nbsp; Anything at all.?&nbsp; &nbsp;They\nresponded.&nbsp; Of course, anything at all. and\nso they asked if they could touch my hair\u2026of course you can..And so they gently\nsurrounded me and starting touching my hair. Which I take quite for granted but\napparently they had never touched a white girl;s blonde hair.&nbsp; They kept saying, it\u2019s so soft it\u2019s so soft.\nAnd they were so gentle with me.&nbsp; So,\nthen I said can I touch your hair\u2026of course.&nbsp;\nAnd I said, it\u2019s so strong, it\u2019s so lively\u2026So there we were in a circle.\nAnd maybe for that moment we were feeling something like love, I don\u2019t know but\nwe sure did end up hugging each other and just talking some more and some\nmore.&nbsp; How lucky am I?&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Challenges and Plans for 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next year we hope to stabilize our financial situation with more steady\nand reliable income per month.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will publish the books that are now &nbsp;print ready in rough draft form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will begin the work to formalize our educational model for children\nliving in poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will create educational materials and activities suitable for children\nliving in poverty and stress. This includes children in refugee camps. Low\nincome communities and transition situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will present workshops about our work to other populations similar to\nours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will strengthen the small business component of our work in order to\nmake sure everyone has a living income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>.We will complete the renovation of the hanging bridge over the river to\nthe indigenous area in Bajo Chirripo with a grant from the Swiss Embassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will provide a clean drinking water system to three indigenous\ncommunities and renovate or update the six clinics in the area with the aid\nreceived from a grant from the Japanese embassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will begin to transition out of La Carpio on a daily basis as the\nCosta Rican government begins to provide for the needs of their citizens\nthrough their health, education, small business enterprise, and housing\nprograms.&nbsp; We have worked daily in this\ncommunity for more than 25 years and have seen two generations of children 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