This Awesome Eagle Scout and his Bunkbeds

 We love our teams and the work they do. Last week we had 18 people from Utah come. They brought an Eagle Scout who raised $1200.00 and used it to buy the wood for 12 bunk beds.  We need the beds for some of the orphanage rooms and for the new volunteer floor. The team of 18 helped this young man to put the beds together. Here are the pictures of the making of the beds. Our elementary kids helped sand the wood and generally were the grunt workers and loved every minute of it. They also got some technical woodworking training. Then the team put it all together and got it to the new third floor volunteer rooms.

OUR NEW THIRD FLOOR


AND OUR AWESOME TEAM. WAY TO GO LADIES AND GENTS.

YOU ALSO CAN HELP, NO MATTER YOUR AGE.

Go to www.casadesion.org and donate or do a money making or volunteer project and help change the world of a Mayan child .

GETTING READY FOR THE ABANDONED BABIES

We love teams here at Casa  De Sion. They help so much. This team from Atlanta, GA finished off our playground for us. Another team from St. George, Utah started the playground with the tire swing and the teeter tooters. Then the Ga. team came a year later and added a swing set, a monkey bar and a climbing thingy. We had to have this to meet government standards for the orphanage, but the community kids in our " orphans at home" program love it too.

The above pictures show this same team repainting all our rooms where the orphanage will be. We want it to look bright and pretty for both the government workers who check us out and then approve us, but mostly for the little ones who come to us afraid, abused and abandoned. We want them to not only feel safe about their physical surrounding, but also their little spirits to feel safe and loved. This teams brought down 11 suitcases of donations and gave 4-5 days of their time to help that happen. They brought a chiropractor who was busy the whole time. He shared clinic days with a medical doctor. I am sure these men and women who have carried 100 pound loads of wood  or vegetables to sale or have had a baby strapped on their back day and night could use a chiropractor. I used to think they just had stronger backs. But I found out they just had a higher tolerance for pain. Anyway we love our teams. They also sponsored 4 kids to be able to go on to middle school. Those same children had helped the team all week in the projects they did.
We have had our first inspection for the orphanage and passed. We have 3 more to go. I wish we were open. I heard the sad stories of 3 more tiny ones today. If we were open they could come to us for care and love. Two were at the hospital. One had come in with the placenta still attached and the other so malnourished it hurt to look at him. A friend of mine's orphanage took the 2 month old who had been abandoned at a woman's door. Soon we will need sponsors for these little ones. Or if you want, you could right now sponsor the first girl or first boy or first baby who comes to us.Because I have no doubts they will come.

So please partner with us
educate a kid
give an orphan a home
feed a malnourished "Orphan at home"

So many ways to make yourself happy and feel blessed.

Go to www.casadesion.org and push the donate button and give yourself a spiritual lift.

Come Volunteer With Us and Meet These People

 This little one is one of my favorite. Edison. He is deaf and Casa de Sion pays for him to go to a special school. His mom loves us because we love him.

Most of you know Irvin, our manager, who works hard to keep everything together.

Bring your medical team and see a large group of Mayans

How could you pass up meeting Isabella?

Some of the kids we give 5000 meals a month to

Alex is one student who was helped to get his business degree by Casa de Sion. Here he is with his dad who works for us.

Come do a volunteer vacation with us and meet these people and uplift your soul while helping them move forward in life.

Check us out at www.casadesion.org

WITH LOVE ON VALENTINE'S WEEK

 WHEN I THINK ABOUT THESE PICTURES, I THINK ABOUT THE LOVE THAT WENT INTO THEM.

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF THEM.

THE PARENTS OF KIDS WHO NEED SCHOLARSHIP MONEY TO CONTINUE IN SCHOOL. THESE PARENTS HAVE NO EDUCATION [ MOST CAN NOT READ OR WRITE] OR RELIABLE MEANS OF MAKING MONEY. SO INSTEAD THEY COME TO US AND ASK FOR OUR HELP. THEY PUSH THEIR KIDS TO DO WELL IN SCHOOL. THEY WORK HARDER SO THE KIDS WILL NOT HAVE TO WORK AND CAN GO TO SCHOOL. THEY KNOW EDUCATION IS THE WAY OUT OF POVERY AND THEY WANT THAT FOR THEIR KIDS. THEY PAY US BACK BY WORKING IN OUR ORGANIC FARM, BY WASHING THE BEDDING BETWEEN TEAMS, BY ALLOWING THEIR KIDS TO WORK WITH THE TEAMS IN OUR SPONSORME PROGRAM. LOVE, THAT IS WHAT IS IS CALLED.

NEXT IS THE LOVE OF OUR VOLUNTEERS. ENOUGH LOVE TO SEND THEM FROM THEIR COMFY HOMES INTO A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. ENOUGH LOVE TO OVERCOME THE FEARS FOR THEIR SAFETY. ENOUGH LOVE TO HELP OTHERS GO FORWARD IN LIFE. CAN YOU SEE THE LOVE IN THE PICTURE BELOW. NOTHING THRILLS MOST WOMEN'S HEARTS MORE THAN EDUCATING A GIRL. AN EDUCATED GIRL WILL NOT PUT UP WITH VIOLENCE LIKE A GIRL WITH A FIRST GRADE EDUCATION. AN EDUCATED GIRL DEMANDS LOVE AS HER RIGHT.

 LOOK AT THE PICTURES BELOW OF THE KIDS GETTING THEIR SCHOOL SUPPLIES FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL. THEY KNOW LOVE TOO. WE HAVE 20 SPONSORS FOR 100 KIDS. THOSE SPONSORS BECAUSE OF THE LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS HAVE AGREED TO $30.00 A MONTH TO HELP A KID MOVE OUT OF POVERTY THROUGH EDUCATION. THOSE YOUNG TEENS KNOW THE LOVE OF THEIR SPONSOR AND THE SPONSOR KNOWS THE LOVE FEELING OF GIVING OF THEMSELVES.

I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE US STAFF OF SAFE HOMES FOR CHILDREN WHO WORK FOR FREE TRYING TO KEEP ALL THE PROGRAMS MOVING FORWARD. THEY KNOW LOVE TOO AND SHOW IT.

THE KIDS FROM MARIA DEL CARMEN

 THANKS FOR THE LOVE AND IF YOU WANT TO SHOW SOME MORE FOR THE 80 KIDS WHO STILL NEED SPONSORS,  JUST WRITE ME

VICKI
20.vicki@gmail.com

MOVING FOWARD WITH NEW CONSTRUCTION

 I KNOW MANY OF YOU HAVE NOTICED I HAVE NOT WRITTEN A BLOG IN A MONTH. SORRY. I HAVE BEEN IN GUATEMALA AND WAS ILL AND HAD SNOW AND ICE. MY SATELLITE DOES NOT WORK WELL WITH SNOW AND ICE. PLUS WE HAVE HAD TO KEEP UP DAILY EMAILS WITH THE TEAMS WORKING GUATEMALA. THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED MUCH. HERE IS A SMALL PART OF IT.
THANKS TO RAY MCGOVERN THE THIRD FLOOR IS ALMOST COMPLETED. IT WILL BE USED FOR VOLUNTEER TEAMS WHO STAY IN LOS ROBLES. IT WILL BE ABOVE THE TWO FLOORS FOR THE ORPHANAGE. THERE ARE 2 LARGE DORM LIKE ROOMS AND A SMALL BEDROOM. TWO BATHROOMS AND A SITTING ROOM.

 WE HAVE HAD TO UPGRADE OUR KITCHEN FACILITY.  THIS IS THE NEW SINK AND CABINET.  WE ALSO HAD TO EXPAND THE DINING AREA AND BUILD A NEW BODEGA FOR STORAGE BECAUSE ALMOST EVERYTHING IN THE OLD BUILDING MUST BE MOVED OUT TO MAKE ROOM FOR CHILDREN.

 THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE CLINIC WHICH WILL DOUBLE AS AN OFFICE.  IT WILL MAGICALLY CHANGE BACK INTO A FULL TIME CLINIC WHEN OUR MEDICAL TEAMS ARRIVE.










ONE OF THE PATIENT ROOMS IS ALSO A ONCE A WEEK THERAPY ROOM.  IT IS MANDATED THAT WE MUST HAVE A PSYCHOLOGIST ON STAFF THAT STUDIES ALL THE CHILDREN AND MAKES A LIFE PLAN--NO MATTER THE AGE.

WE NOW HAVE A LOW TECH SOLAR CLOTHES DRYER.  HALF THE YEAR IT DOESN'T RAIN AND THE OTHER HALF USUALLY HAS DRY MORNINGS.  THE COST OF ELECTRICITY IS VERY HIGH.