The Importance of Education

I received the following note recently from Emma Siria, one of our Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) Directors.

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In 2008 I met a woman named Rosa.  At that time she had 7 children and no husband.  Suany 10, a boy 9, Angelica 7, Cecilia 5, Lisseth 4, Cipriano 2, a baby a few months old and she was pregnant again.  After visiting Rosa's home and realizing the extreme poverty that they lived in we invited her to enroll her children in the Early Childhood Development Center but she did not want to.  Her excuse was that her children had to take care of her house because she and her 11 year old son worked.  We kept insisting and we visited her numerous times until we were finally able to convince her.  She enrolled the three young girls since the older children had to take care of the 2 year old and the baby.  Sometimes Suany would show up at the school to ask for food.  Rosa, the mom, did not attend a single parent meeting during the entire year. 

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Flory Dalia

Meet Juana Sanchez and nine month old Flory Dalia. Flory Dalia is severely malnourished. At nine months she only weighs 7 pounds 7 ounces. The Sanchez family lives in a mud and stick hut outside of Choluteca in the village of Montesillo. Last Sunday morning Juana and Flory Dalia showed up at church in Limon looking for J.B. They had received medical treatment at a private clinic in Choluteca. The physician and his wife are friends of J.B. and thought that he might be able to help this very poor family. Not only is Flory Dalia severely malnourished, she also has pneumonia.

It turns out that last Sunday morning Juana and Flory Dalia walked between four to five miles to the market in Choluteca where mother Juana then begged for change to pay for the bus ride to Limon in hopes of finding someone to help her sick little girl.

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