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KINDERCHUBBIES WITH D.O.E.R.S.
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Thanks to our friends at D.O.E.R.S. many village children now have milk, vitamins and medicines to combat malnutrition. We greatly appreciate the faithful support of our partners! Thanks so much!!
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CHILDREN'S DAY FUN!
This year we were able to team up our wonderful donors with donors from Project Ascend, Central America, to provide lots of candy, toys, and treats for children in close to 20 village schools! We were even able to buy piñatas for several classes to help them celebrate Children's Day in style! Thank you so much for your generosity!
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B.V. EXPANSION TO NICARAGUA AND GUATEMALA!
Buenos Vecinos has been doing lots of expanding in recent months, and now we have projects in Nicaragua and Guatemala, where we are beginning to offer support to rural schools and communities with many needs!
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And in Guatemala, our fall sweater drive is underway!
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SCHOOL SUPPLIES FROM KANSAS ARRIVE!!
Thanks to some wonderful people in the Lawrence, Kansas, school district, we have begun receiving boxes of school supplies that were collected at the end of the last school year! We are so excited to begin distributing these to teachers! Thank you so much!!
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RECYCLING FOR SOAP PROJECT STILL GOING STRONG!
Our recycling program and soap exchange is still in full force, and we are happy to report we've had to go buy more soap to exchange for all the recyclables the kids in La Laguna have collected! As a result the community is cleaner and general hygiene has improved! Even the simplest project can have a huge impact on the quality of life; thanks so much to the wonderful donors who have helped support this project!!
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"Funeral of a Desk" by Adin Alvarado and the children of El Chilar
Click the video below to watch the tragic (and just a little bit humorous) tale of a desk and the children who loved it, but had to say goodbye... (For our friends who don't speak Spanish, see the translation below...)
Narrator translation: Today, with much sorrow and pain, we take a desk that has served in our school, and the poor thing has died, and we’re going to bury it.
Those present here today are crying for their desk. Cry, kids, for your desk! Goodbye, desk! The kids are crying, sad, because their desk is leaving. Look at these kids crying for their desk…
This is the sad reality in our schools, and we want to ask for the help of many good, generous people.
We’ll bury this along with the desk, poor little deceased thing, Rest In Peace.
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Want to make a donation? Here's how! (Be sure to include the apartment number!)
Click the button below to make a one-time or recurring donation online (in order to direct your donation toward a specific program or purpose, you will need to indicate this by clicking on the "add special instructions" link on the review page when making your donation).
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Mail a check made out to Ellen Finn to:
BUENOS VECINOS
C/O JAN CAVITT
1011 Bancroft St., #206
Bellingham, WA 98225
You can make a tax-deductible donation of $100 or more by contacting Amigos of Honduras at amigosofhonduras@gmail.com to request instructions for mailing your donation. Be sure to mention that your donation is for “Buenos Vecinos”.
Need to reach us? Email Ellen at ellenlfinn@hotmail.com.
Your gifts are greatly appreciated and make all of our work possible!
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