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As El Salvador slowly begins to open back up, we are starting to spend time with our kids little by little once again. Our first event was nacho night with the youth. We want to shift our focus from feeding the body to also working on emotional and spiritual damage that may have been caused by a 6 month marshal law lock down. The youth had a great time and ate a total of 6 pounds of nachos.
(all involved wore masks. Masks were removed only to eat and then placed on again.)
(all involved wore masks. Masks were removed only to eat and then placed on again.)
Kids' Club will not be reopening in 2020. Since the lock down, we lost the building that we were using to host Kids' Club. We are also slightly concerned to have young children brought together in a small area as they may not be able to self monitor social distancing and mask wearing. For now, we will be leading Kids' Club online.
Thanks to so many who gave above and beyond during our Covid crisis. Not one child or one of their family members missed a meal during this extreme time. We are blessed beyond imagination to have the partners that we do. All glory to God who provides for His children.
Oscar has completed his time volunteering with the government. In total Oscar's team delivered over 20,000 bags of food to starving families in El Salvador.
We received a large donation of clothes. Sorting and organizing is the first step to getting the clothes out to our kids.
Now that El Salvador has begun to open, kids are able to come out land say "hi" to us as we deliver their food. It is great to be able to interact with them once again.
On September 15, El Salvador celebrated 199 years of independence. Our own Ruth Belen sang the national anthem and led the national prayer on a virtual program.