COLUMBUS — Through the joint efforts of the Upper Sandusky Rotary Club and the Lviv Ratusha Rotary Club, with a grant from Rotary International, a van has been purchased for the St. Michael’s Children’s Home in Rativici. This van will provide transportation for children there to medical appointments, music lessons, camp and other necessary and [...]
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Request for Volunteers From Amani Children’s Home in Tanzania
September 9, 2011 | 1:27 pm
Dear Jean & SARA, Hello from Amani Children’s Home in Tanzania! Thank you for your kind offer ofmedical care for the Amani children. You offer a marvelous service andhave done so much good in many areas. We are fortunate to have a full-time nurse who manages the basic healthcare needs of the Amani children. For anything [...]
A Message From the Executive Director
May 25, 2011 | 5:54 pm
My dear brothers and sister in Christ: “Christ has no hands but our hands to do His work today; He has no feet but our feet to lead men in His way He has no tongue but our tongue but our tongue to tell men how He died He has no help but our help [...]
A Place Called Faith and Hope
February 25, 2011 | 10:49 pm
By Andrew J. Tonn SARA Media Director SAN SALVADOR—We are in the hills just outside the chaotic urban sprawl at a former refugee camp where once bombs fell and Devora Rivas huddled inside the wire with hundreds of other women and children, not daring to go out and hoping the Army chose not to come [...]
The Val de Marne Clinic
February 25, 2011 | 10:48 pm
By Andrew J. Tonn SARA Media Director EL ESPINO—The people come in from the hills, from miles down the coast, to see the doctor at the Val de Marne clinic. They line up, sitting in flimsy white plastic chairs in the blue-painted breezeway with their cuts and sicknesses, their ailing children. Dr. Ernesto Quinteros sees [...]
Farther Away and Deeper in the Forest
February 25, 2011 | 10:46 pm
By Andrew J. Tonn SARA Media Director EL ESPINO—The SARA group stepped carefully, one by one, into the fiberglass longboat. I stepped in last and took the spot in the prow so as better be able to film and photograph the excursion. The Salvadoran captain of the launch, an older fisherman, fired up the outboard [...]
The Children of the Mangroves Photo Essay
February 14, 2011 | 7:04 am
Click on this text to see photographs of the children of El Espino at work and at play taken over a period of six years.
Return to El Espino
February 14, 2011 | 7:00 am
By Andrew J. Tonn Media Director EL ESPINO—The early morning was dense with the sounds of mourning doves and cock crows, car horns and traffic that intruded on sleep as they echoed through the hard corridors of tile and plaster. I slipped from bed, dressed and padded out into the flower-filled courtyard of the Hotel [...]
Surgery Needed for a Friend in Hungary
February 10, 2011 | 3:42 am
This letter concerns Mr. Pápai’s visit to Nyíregyháza on Thursday. Dr. Szabó was very nice to give him an appointment and the next day they talked on the phone. She examined Mr. Pápai and did some warming procedures to ease his pain. She also prescribed some medication for him to take until the surgeries are [...]
Good News for El Salvador Right Before Christmas!
December 21, 2010 | 7:58 pm
By John Gilberg, Director for El Salvador NEW BREMEN–Over three years ago we began a campaign to send a 40 foot container to El Salvador. It has finally arrived in that country, just in time for Christmas. The container was loaded with articles that we wished to give because of our love and concern for [...]