Day 1: Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Life is awesome when you are a Sleeping Children volunteer and can witness the joyful expressions of 650 children. That's what our first day of distribution in Tegucigalpa, Honduras was like. Some of the children had been practicing their English and thrilled us with their "hellos" and "thank yous". But better yet were their animated expressions as we asked them to smile - "sonria" when they had their pictures taken.

There were many other things to be grateful for on our first day other than the happiness that these children expressed for their "gift". We continue to be thankful that SCAW continues to have such generous supporters. And as an added bonus we are thankful for the support of the ever so professional Rotary Club of Tegucigalpa. Their work started many months ago in the preparation of the entire bedkits as well as the endless support with the children on the sites. Simply said we couldn't do it without them.  We are reminded that they are in fact an intricate part of this entire process.  I think it helps that they are having some fun with it as well.

Today we also met a young Rotariat - Luis who is 20 years old, training to be a doctor and just joined the younger group of Rotarians 2 months ago! We learned much from him today as he learned about SCAW and we must have done something right because he and some of his fellow Rotariats will be join us later on in the week!



We are well on our way on enriching the lives of a total of 5000 Honduran children over the next 10 days and we hope you will continue to share in our journey.


Till tomorrow,

Buenas noches

Theresa Carravetta for Team Honduras 2012
Team Honduras 2012:

Jim Gibson, Ken Teslia Irene Harrison (Team leader),
Theresa Carravetta, Valerie Teslia, Shelia Martin

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