Open Hearts International Children's Relief Mission
Those of you who have visited or read about Colegio Esperanza know that it is a huge blessing to the dump community of La Chureca. We have around 300 students who recieve their full education, two meals a day and lots of extracurricular activity all for free. It is a place of much hope for the kids and a place where God moves greatly in the lives of the children of La Chureca.
We will have many visitors this summer, so we wanted to share some needs of the school. If any of you will be visiting and want to bring them down or would like to help buy these items, here is the list that we got yesterday from Sheyla Marenco who is our school director. Thank you in advanced!
Play Items: -Legos -Puzzles -Games (like Twister & Sorry) -A basketball Rim and Backboard -Swing Seats (The rubber kind you can only get in the states…8 of them) -Toys for Preschoolers
School Items: -Acrylic Art Paint -Decorative boarder for the Dry Erase Boards -Dry Erase Markers -Dry Erase Erasers -Construction Paper (lots of it! Yellow & Variety Pack) -Large Size Construction Paper -Oil Pastel Chalk Crayons (the powdery ones, not the oily ones…for artwork) -Coloring Books -Notebooks (not spiral bound, the ones that are bound with that black border) -Pencil Sharpeners -Erasers
-Spanish Bibles (20 youth Spanish bibles for the Scholarship High School Students)
Medical Items: -First Aid Supplies -Children’s Tylenol and fever reducers -Children’s Hydration packets (the ones you give orally or mix in a drink)
Hey everyone! Pastor Russell here from Cape Charles, VA. Norman, I need your email address again to help me stay in touch with Johan Garcia. I have sent a couple of letters to him through Chacia but I think working through you would be a faster way of getting them to him. I so hope he is doing well and tell him I have been trying to get to him by mail. Thanks everyone and anyone who can help me with this.