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the hogar del niño project the hogar del niño project this unique orphanage located near san salvador el salvador is home to 140 persons with disabilities every three months our program sends a team of two volunteers to live at the hogar and provide love and stimulation to the residents through education and play pages blog meet the niños staff faq s past volunteers how to volunteer donate media testimonials tuesday april 30 2013 hogar video watch this video it will make you want to go volunteer at the hogar and we are still accepting applications for the summer and the fall posted by rachel at 2 51 pm no comments monday october 8 2012 so long el salvador sadly this is our final post of this summer and since we have had some time to process the happenings of this summer we hope you don t mind it being a little on the lengthy side my time in el salvador this past summer was one that was different than most of my visits to this wonderful country most summers i go to spend time with my family there but this summer i spent it with sara my partner for the summer who turned out to be such a good friend in the hogar del padre vito guarato it proved to be one of the best and most rewarding experience of my life a t first i was so overwhelmed with everything at the hogar especially since i arrived before sara but as time went on we grew closer to the residents as well as the workers that make the place a home for these wonderful children as with anything in life that is planned the unplanned happens instead we had many ups and downs with our stay at the hogar but ultimately reminded ourselves that we were there for the children first everything else came second so we worked our way through every imposing obstacle to give the children the love and attention they crave and thrive off of one of the best moments was hearing your name being screamed from across el rancho when the children would see you along all the countless other memories that i have and will never forget i think in our own small way sara and i made a difference we made these children feel loved and important we became their friend and tried to teach them along the way perhaps one of the most important things i realized was while trying to make the children feel loved they also made us feel loved while trying to teach the kids they taught me something vital love is the answer to everything it doesn t matter if you have anything in this world besides the clothes on your back or whatever your race gender color age every person is loved and deserves love it s what makes the world go round it s what makes all of us happy and these beautiful children of god are the happiest human beings i know we all can learn so much from every single one of them i felt that as though we had administrative problems interrupting our ideas for projects or lack of communication we had accomplished something i had never felt any more alive or connected to god and nature and the people around me or myself as i did during my time at the hogar if anyone has the opportunity to ever go do it do it in a heartbeat you will not regret it it may just change your life it changed mine and i didn t even see it happening until it was upon me because all the while i was making a small difference in the life of the residents i truly cannot wait for the day i can go back and laugh cry smile sing and dance along with my beloved friends at the hogar del niño melissa it s been several weeks since i ve been home but not a day goes by that i don t think about at least one resident but rarely if ever just one i hear one direction and maritza s beaming face pops in my head as she shouts their songs talking about which one is cutest i see someone drinking a coke and i think of ana del carmen wrapping her arms around my waist with a big cheesy grin saying quiero coca cola mama we might have done a little bit of spoiling this summer waking up is slightly less enjoyable now that i hear a normal alarm clock instead of memo talking grunting outside my window or mariachi music down at the rancho i turn a corner wishing anita was there ready to tackle me with a huge hug i go out to eat at a hispanic restaurant and am genuinely disappointed when they don t have pupusas and i really really miss xiomara and her little crew calling me cuchara instead of sara they started calling me cuchara sara or vice versa because it has a nice ring to it i guess cuchara means spoon so naturally they liked that better than my name and eventually dropped the sara altogether this summer was incredible truly incredible this summer i learned the power of love and intentionality letting someone know that you wholeheartedly care for them and want to spend a morning with them even if it just means letting them drag you around by your arm talking to every one you come across or sitting next to them and massaging their arm this summer a lot of things didn t go as planned we didn t get to teach as many classes as we wanted or paint as many rooms as we intended though we still painted all the dormitory hallways but everything still happened perfectly what the residents are going to remember is that we took individual time with each of them to let them know how loved they were we made bracelets with them and wrote them letters and helped them practice their handwriting we helped aida with her english and made little books for her to teach her english words we sat in the bedrooms of residents who are often lonely we helped them with their homework we took them for walks around the orphanage we embraced goodnight hugs from xiomara that were known to last several minutes we held some as they cried or laughed with them until we were all in tears we developed lasting relationships with both the residents and the wonderful workers i am so thankful to have had this opportunity i made the most wonderful friend melissa a girl who could not have been any more perfect to spend the summer and love the residents with this was my first time leaving the united states and though i ve always had my heart set on traveling the world i have a feeling i ll be making trips back to where a big piece of my heart was left right at the hogar sara cuchara we are so thankful for all of your support and encouragement along the way here is a collection of some of our favorite pictures from the summer on melissa s last day there we handed out our gifts to several of the residents including mix cds and pictures i m pretty sure they loved it one of my friends sara came to the hogar for the last 11 days of my stay there she came the day before melissa left the residents were quick to share their love with her this also happened to be the week the workers decided to pull out the pool in which we joined the residents several days in our clothes we hope that you have found joy in seeing their faces and hearing stories from this summer we are so excited to see who gets to go down there in the future if you are thinking about it do it posted by sarakromans at 9 31 pm 3 comments tuesday july 17 2012 a day in the life we started this morning by taking two of the children from lactantes outside to try to practice using straws in hopes of gaining more muscle control and ultimately the ability to consume meals through a straw to minimize choking and messiness tatiana was more concerned with taking her arm brace off and jenny seemed overwhelmed by the whole idea so we decided to give those two little ones a break we brought out reina next and she was a bundle of joy she responded to the straw being in her mouth really well though she didn t suck on it yet but with practice we think she might be able to next came one of our favorite times feeding the children in lactantes one of the niñeras gave me a spoon and a bowl and asked me to feed sonia i quickly realized that the spoon was at least ten times too big for her little mouth but i tried it anyway not wanting to offend the niñera for her choice in spoon size the poor girl was making hardly any progress a few minutes into feeding the same niñera walked over to me laughing realizing the problem and had a spoon much more fit for sonia s mouth so we continued feeding and then i noticed something big dark and fast out of the corner of my eye that is never a good sign the following events happened something like this me eeeee melissa i pointed behind her melissa something along the lines of oh my gosh as she runs in the opposite direction since it was coming right for her niñera que paso what happened melissa una cuca a cockroach no more words came after that just me melissa and two niñeras dancing around as this giant cockroach weaved in and out underneath the kids wheelchairs the most wonderful part was the children laughing as they were just simply enjoying their lunch and all of a sudden the people feeding them were dancing around with their bowls of food still in hand the only time a cockroach has ever been a fun experience around 1 30 40 of us piled into two vans to head to the local stadium there were 19 of us in our un air conditioned van thank jesus for windows and fast drivers we arrived at the stadium and i was so reminded of being at the special olympics the only thing missing was a crowd of 100 camp barnabas a special needs summer camp i worked at and every year we cheered on the local special olympics staffers going crazy in the stands there was ball throwing for those in wheelchairs a little jumping obstacle course for some of the others and down at the other end was the super intense stuff for the people in wheelchairs with extremely buff arms i spent the afternoon with the obstacle course group and we started off with warm ups i spent this time coaxing xiomara on my left to participate as she found anything and everything to stall time until she only had to do the last 2 or 3 in a set of 10 and on my right i was preventing anita from falling into the little concrete ditch behind us as she was having too much fun laying on her back and whipping her legs over her head bear with me i didn t feel like hauling my big camera to the stadium so today s pictures were taken on my phone warm up stretches obstacle course then we got to run i was blessed to be anita s running partner seriously blessed i stinking love that girl that was the most fun lap i have ever ran in my entire life she refused to take her backpack off or should i say frontpack as she insisted on carrying it on the front and she held my hand screaming and laughing the whole way any time she stopped i threw my arms up in cheering motion saying puedes hacerlo you can do it she immediately picked right back up with a big grin on her face we left around 4 and i had the seat on the ride home that faced backward looking over all 19 sweaty hot exhausted bodies that still mustered up the energy to sing out the back window carmencita whistle and blow kisses to melissa and random pedestrians memo and make eye contact with me all the way from the back row and immediately begin dancing xiomara how are we ever going to leave this place posted by sarakromans at 10 39 am no comments thursday july 12 2012 happy birthday geovanny and roberto tonight we celebrated the birthdays of geovanny and roberto who both had birthdays in june you can be assured that once you meet geovanny you will never forget his birthday for the rest of your life nor will he forget yours birthdays are very important to him any time he meets somebody new he pulls out his little construction paper notepad and writes their names and birthday down to hold onto forever it is so sweet to see how excited he gets when finding out that little fact about new friends since birthdays are such a big deal to him we had been looking forward to this party for quite some time we invited 9 of the residents and 15 showed up what s an extra 6 anyway we couldn t decide on a theme for the party so it was kind of like a hawaiian hollywood birthday party most of them had an abundance of leis around their neck they loved the cute little umbrellas to put in with their kolashanpan a favorite soda down here and we had a hollywood themed table runner i don t think they minded the randomness of this fiesta one thing was for sure they loved the peanut butter jelly sandwiches we found out last week that those are one of their favorite meals so of course we had pb j s for tonight s party thanks to pinterest melissa discovered the brownie in a cup recipe which is a super easy recipe that included brownies being made in a coffee cup for just one minute and adding a little or a lot of ice cream and sprinkles on top easy and delicious before indulging in these delicious treats we all sang happy birthday both in english and spanish to geovanny and roberto the birthday boys loved it while their friends sang loud and proud and of course it wouldn t be a party without chuchu the pet dog after consuming 6 yes 6 liters of soda and eating brownie sundaes it s safe to say everyone was on an extreme sugar rush by the end of the night and this was the aftermath we might invest in paper plates next time happy birthday roberto and geovanny posted by sarakromans at 12 05 am 1 comment older posts home subscribe to posts atom share this button with your friends aida _____________________ alonso _____________________ ana maría _____________________ antonia _____________________ emilia _____________________ fátima _____________________ raul _____________________ roberto _____________________ sonia _____________________ steven _____________________ victor _____________________ xiomara _____________________ blog archive 2013 1 april 1 hogar video 2012 7 october 1 july 2 june 2 february 2 2011 7 november 1 may 5 april 1 2010 12 august 1 july 2 june 2 may 1 march 2 february 4 2009 18 september 1 august 1 july 4 june 10 may 2 2008 65 december 3 november 6 october 3 september 8 august 13 july 18 june 12 may 2 simple theme theme images by gelatoplus powered by blogger