Child sponsorship update from Tela, Honduras

Update for child sponsors from the SOS Children's Village Tela, Honduras from Winter 2008.

Dear Sponsors:

We are very happy to contact you one more time and to send to you a special greeting of love and peace on behalf of the children, Mothers and collaborators of the SOS Children Village Tela.

The generous help that you give us makes possible that 125 children divided in 14 houses can enjoy of the warm and more important of a family where they share, between their laughs and games, the respect for their rights and their dignity of humans beings.

The scholar year has finished and the children enjoy their vacation in home and they now enjoy the cultural, religious, and sportive activities that their mothers prepare to them; nevertheless they also are integrated to the support of the activities of the Village and the community too. Some of the youths give their support to the National Rehabilitation Center to obtain money for the disabled children.

The children, immediately after the closing of the SOS Educational Centre, were registered in public schools. The balance of this new experience was positive because the children have integrated very well, not without the help of their mothers who has made a big effort to obtain the outstanding performance of the children. The mothers believe that the change is positive because they can share some experience with the mothers of the community. The youths of the Youth Facility have approved their scholar year; two of them already have a stable job and the other one works middle time.

The youths who are integrated in the juvenile group of the church have projected and they have supported to the prevention of AIDS, they not only give conferences in colleges of the town, but also they are trying to sensitize the people about the human treat that has to give to the people with this illness.

Developing children at Tela, Honduras

The health standards are in a good level; the mothers have coordinated extraordinarily the visits to the health centers of the town to get an efficient medical attention for the children.

The spiritual strengthening has been maintained in coordination with the Catholic Church; the children receive spiritual formation, conferences about sexuality and social development. One of the special experiences was the baptism of twenty little kids.

The administrative employees have been qualified about social work, team work, and work with the childhood. The teachers came from the State Bureau of the Childhood. Four new aunts have integrated to our labor in the care and formation of the children; we hope they stay a long time with us.

The Familiar Strengthening Strategy have continued with the opening of new centers in marginal neighborhoods where now the children feel safe and protected while their parents goes to work to obtain the necessary economic resources to keep the union of their family.

Once again we want to send to you our gratitude on behalf of our children, girls and young people. Your generosity makes possible that this wonderful work keeps on generating smiles and happy hearts in the Honduran childhood. Thanks for making possible that the life of the children and girls has a future full of love and opportunities to be a person of good for the humanity.

That Lord spills a lot of blessings in each of you and your families in this Christmas and New Year

Sincerely,

Freddy Reyes
Director Aldea Infantil SOS Tela