Where has the time gone??

    Another month has flown by and there is so much going on! Tummy is growing steadily.. although it's still only a small package to carry.

Our Dulce Refugio team.. with those going
and those coming.
Top: Bianca (teacher) and Laura (accountant)
Next 4 starting from left: Claudia, Wendy
Yenny, Noelia.
Bottom 3 starting from left: Evelyn, Ana
Alicia.

    In Dulce Refugio things are picking up pace and there is a never ending list of things to do and changes to deal with. Ana (working with the database) and Evelyn (morning teacher in the children's room) left the team in May. Several new people came on board - Sylvia is helping us in the area of counselling, Claudia is in the area of counselling and also helps with getting donations. Romina is temporarily taking Ana's place on the computer, keeping the database updated. We hope that she will be making a long-term commitment with us and since she is a Social Worker, she'll be moving from the computer to another department in Dulce. =) Yenny started in the month of March, she is our much-needed and long-awaited psychologist. She is doing an amazing job working with the teachers in the children's room, and spending a lot of time with the children, doing counselling and evaluations with some of the more "difficult" children (due to abuse and other problems). Then, end of June we loose 2 more members of our team that have been here since last year.. Alicia who was in charge of the area of counselling and social work and Noelia, who was working in the area of proyects and donations. So, needless to say.. there is a lot of shifting around, evaluating, orientation of new staff, finishing off different proyects and working on improving and stabilizing every area as much as possible. There is always more then enough to do in the "improvement and stabilizing" department... Dulce Refugio is still in construction with so much to learn and get set up yet. But, I thank God everyday for His faithfulness and presence even when the process He takes us through can seem so frustrating, confusing or hurtful a times.
   I ask for your prayers during the month of June as we face the many changes, work on completing proyects, finalize with some workers while orientating new ones, dealing with the daily demands and prepare for a new campaign. The campaign is specifically to ask for donations for the children in Dulce Refugio, we are in desperate need of milk, clothes, shoes, diapers, and toys! Winter is right around the corner and mothers are asking everyday for any one of these items and we are very low in stock. So, we ask for your prayers for this campaign as well, that God would provide in abundance for our little ones in Dulce Refugio! (P.S. There are more than 1,000 children registered in Dulce Refugio)

Our good-bye party for Ana and Evelyn!!