Children of the Light

Children of the Light featured on UNICEF website!

Hi all,

I wanted to share with you the exciting news that Children of the Light has been featured in a blog post on the US Fund for UNICEF website!

As an intern at the US Fund for UNICEF, I offered to write about my experience as a friend and volunteer of the Children of the Light and to inform people about what small and large organizations, like Children of the Light and UNICEF, are doing to help put an end to child inequality in Honduras.

http://fieldnotes.unicefusa.org/2010/03/making_progress_in_honduras_1.html

Check it out

-Meghan St. John, volunteer from Connecticut, USA

January & February Newsletter!

Hi Everyone!

Below is the new Children of the Light Newsletter sent out by Bill and Mary today.

Much Love!

Genna, Volunteer from US

Newsletter J F 2010

Mid-Week Update!

Hola!

We’ve arrived and we have had a few days to catch up and spend time with the boys at the project. Everyone is doing well except several of the boys have caught colds due to the cooler weather.

However, spirits are high and the youngest boys, Milton, Josue, Wilmer, Angel, Oscar, Michael and Marquitos are keeping us busy running around and playing soccer. Marlon insists we only speak in Spanish so that we learn the language and he has been a huge help! Meanwhile, the older boys are very busy doing their homework each day. And on Monday, Geovanny celebrated his 17th birthday!

The school at  Ninos de la Luz now has grades 1-4 and plan to expand a grade every year. Currently there are two volunteers, JuJu from New Zealand and Elizabeth from Norway, who are helping teach in the classrooms.

Genna and I took photos of all the students at the school that will be added to the blog as soon as possible. Furthermore, we have helped decorate the library and computer room to “bring it to life.” We have also taken many new photos and videos of the boys that we will share with you all soon!

Dios le bendiga!

-Meghan (Volunteer from Connecticut, US)

Ambassadors

Hello All!
It’s March already? How did that happen??

Sorry for the radio silence, COTL Family! Not too much to report after the holidays yet, but I will soon have plenty of updates after my trip beginning tomorrow with fellow US Volunteer Meghan to visit our hermanos y padres de Honduras (Honduran brothers and parents) in La Ceiba!

Wish us luck and a safe trip.  We’re excited to document the status of dorm construction and other happenings on the grounds, the lives of the boys and to gather information on how to best help COTL in 2010.

And, of course, we’ll be collecting photos, letters and other special correspondences from the boys to their sponsors for the first Quarterly Sponsor Newsletter. These updates are only available to those receiving the free Quarterly Newsletter through the monthly Sponsorship program. Very excited!

We will post online updates via the blog, twitter & the Facebook Page as often as possible.

A Dios le Bendiga, Familia! (God Bless, Family!)

-Genna, Volunteer from US