Sorry this is delayed, but wanted to point some of our regular readers to a fantastic new site you need to check out! Katie Ficker is keeping a very regular blog now updating you on the progress out in Canillá, which is nothing short of amazing currently! God is really moving towards getting a 24-hour care center or small hospital that is focused fully on the people of that area! Here is the link:
http://theaaronfickers.wordpress.com
Check it out!
We will be back in August with more news as usual, "primero Dios"...
A last couple of pictures of the Widow's basket project if any of you are interested in some great gifts! (Stolen from my own recent facebook post...)
I'm so proud of the Ficker family in Canillà, Guatemala and Rachael Elisabeth Needham for starting this great project-- Will YOU help me help them?! There is a village where they do a medical clinic every Tuesday in a very remote area in Guatemala. There are a large number of widows there who are struggling to feed their families, and Leslie Ficker has looked for a way to help them besides just giving them food for years now. So Rachael taught them how to make these baskets out of natural materials (pine and other types of straw) and provided them with needles to sew them together. We then help sell them to help cover the costs of food for their children, which is being provided through the clinic. Each basket has the brief story of the widow who made it attached, and they sell for suggested donations of $5 to $18. They make great gifts! I have a suitcase full if anyone is interested... Let me know!
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