Today found us
distributing another 600 bedkits in a small community on the outskirts of
Tegucigalpa.
It was an especially difficult but meaningful day for me, as I got to photograph and interview 14 beautiful children who
received bedkits in memory of a sweetheart of a girl named Olivia. She loved
children and supported Sleeping Children. Her parents donated the bedkits in
memory of her.
After telling them
Olivia's story via a translator, I asked them a series of questions. The last
question I asked the children (all 6 and 7 years old) was, is there anything
you would like to say to Olivia's parents? Here are some of their responses:
“she was beautiful”
“she was very pretty”
“I would have liked to play with her”
“tell them we will say a prayer for her”
Thankfully, I was not
needed out in the open to help with the distribution. I volunteered myself to
go help move bedkits where I was alone and had time to gather myself.
Sweet dreams, children
Clarence Deyoung
Team Honduras 2019
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