Dear Friends,
We would love for you to visit us at one of our Open Houses -
Saturday, December 8th (1-5pm) or Tuesday, December 11th (6-8:30pm). More information is below.
This newsletter is full of pictures from the trip. I hope you enjoy!
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 Come to One of Our Open Houses!
You are invited to Angela Grussing's House at:
3305 Lands End Lane
Knoxville, TN 37931
865-599-4347
Saturday, December 8th (1-5pm)
Tuesday, December 11th (6:00-8:30pm)
There will be snacks to munch on while you shop. We accept all major credit cards. Come get some Christmas shopping done - while supporting our service work!
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Photo Collage
This is a collage of pictures put together by Mayan Families and played the last night we were with them in Guatemala.
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| November 2012 Trip - Put Together by Mayan Families |
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Photo Journal of November Trip -
Sunday to Tuesday
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| Woman from San Antonio Palopo with the chicken feed wrapped up on her head. |
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| Receiving chickens. |
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| Our boxes arriving at Mayan Families - these are tough for 2 of our guys to move around - I can't believe he is carrying them on his back. |
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| John serving the elderly in San Jorge. |
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| John helping a woman down a step. Many of these women climb a mountain to get back and forth to their homes from the Elderly Feeding Program. Some are even barefoot. |
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| Sandy blowing bubbles while others install an ONIL stove. |
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| Kelly & Angela playing with the kids. |
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| Becky, Amanda, and Matt installing an ONIL stove in a home for the cook at the Mayan Families Elderly Program. |
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| The mother is supporting the 6 children on her own as her husband died. The house was built by donors for the woman and her family. The stove pipe will be finished later. |
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| The reason we love shoe donations! |
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| John and Sandy seeing Maria, their sponsored student, when we return to the offices to give out food baskets. |
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| Tom reuniting with the family that the guys had put a kitchen in during the July 2011 trip. |
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| Organizing the food baskets. |
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| A family from Agua Escondida receiving a food basket. At least several of them were wearing the same clothes when we saw them 2 days later. |
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| Another family receiving a food basket. |
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| Cutie pie! |
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| We are all amazed at the size of the carrots! |
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| Tom & Paul cutting up cardboard to be used as a base for the preschool graduation gifts for the children. |
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| Angela wrapping the base for the graduation gifts. A beanie baby and piece of candy were later put on top of the base. |
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| Monday night's dinner at the Circus Bar. |
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| On Tuesday morning, Juan was at our hotel waiting for us with the pens we had ordered. He had come from Chichicastenango - about an hour away from Pana. He remembers Angela & Matt each time we come back. He goes to school on Saturdays. |
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| Amanda carrying a beam for the house we were building. |
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| We had to remove the rocks and debris from the house so the floor could be cemented. It took 3 men over a week and a half to level the area for the house - by hand. |
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| Tom & Paul leveling the ground in the bedroom so it can be cemented. Eight people will live in this one bedroom house - but it is better than what they are coming from - 23 living in a 2 bedroom home. |
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| Matt carrying a bucket of sand from an area down the hill below the home. We probably carried 75 buckets - it was hard work! |
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| A typical campfire cooking area. |
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| Some of the Ibate kids with Jacob & Eli. (Freddy, Donny, Julia, Marivela, and Oscar) |
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| Taking some time to play with the littlest girl. |
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| A little girl and her play things... |
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| Freddy helping to shovel the rocks. The kids came on their own and started helping us. |
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| A little girl hanging laundry. |
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| The ONIL stove is being used in the house next to where we were working. |
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| Paul & Eli taking a break - it was hot working on the house! |
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| Back at the Mayan Families office we made peanut butter sandwiches - and had bananas and watermelon for lunch. |
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| After lunch we started sorting through the donations that had arrived in our boxes. Amanda started sorting through the shoes. |
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| The National AYSO shirts made it! Bartelo, the Mayan Families office caretaker, modeled one for us. |
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| Becky & Eli took a break to pet one of the many Mayan Families' rescued dogs that are roaming around. |
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| The Mayan Families' employees worked with us to put together 110 food bags for the children at the Chukmuk and El Barranco preschools. |
 A big box filled with the food bags. |
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| For dinner we went to Jose Pinguinos for a cultural dinner. We learned about the marimba, clothing of Guatemala, and how to make tortillas. |
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| We all had a typical Guatemalan dish - pepian with rice and tortillas. |
More to come later from the rest of the week! |
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July 2013 Trip
The dates for the July 2013 Trip will be July 6-14th. If we have more than 35 people interested in going, we will add another trip. The initial deposit of $100 is due currently. If you would like more info, please e-mail Angela atangela@nuestrosninoscharity.org.
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SERVICE. COMPASSION.
HOPE.
Nuestros Niños is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Nuestros Niños translates to "Our Children" - representing the children that we help, along with our children with whom we hope to instill a sense of service.
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Contact Info
Angela Grussing
865-599-4347
angela@nuestrosninoscharity.org
P.O. Box 30656
Knoxville, TN 37930
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