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TEAMworks Guatemala Day 4

It's the little thing in life that can make the greater impact. That's was the mantra for today as the three of us and Leo walked into Hermano Pedro. Hermano Pedro is an orphanage affiliated with a church and hospital that houses 100+ children with special needs, many who have very severe disabilities. They are lucky in that they employ several occupational and physical therapist who work with the kids each day. If we are being honest, the morning was very hard. The morning therapists were very skeptical of us and were hesitant to work along side us with their children. They were, however, willing to bring us children to work with by ourselves. We were determine to show God's love. The worth of a child. The sweet interaction of these beautiful individual's God created. Their staff is very good a providing therapy but, not in a way where they interact with each child. We are hoping that through our actions they see a bit of what a blessing these children can be to us, just as we can be for them.


Before heading to lunch ourselves, we were able to help feed several of the children and Paige was able to educate on safer feeding techniques. Kelly and Nicole helped feed a little boy by allowing him to help himself. With just a bit of help, Carlitos, was able to bring a loaded spoon to his mouth! He lit up and we could tell he was very proud of himself.


After lunch and a staffing change, we set to work again. This time, the new set of therapists were familiar with our group and were excited to see what we could do to help their children. Nicole was able to fit many braces to kids feet, while Kelly was giving out hand splints left and right (literally, almost always two per child). At the end of our day we met with some of the therapists to see what we could provide on our next visit. Paige was excited to hear they would be open to a “feeding clinic” for their nannies on ways to provide even safer ways to help their kids eat.


Again, we are so grateful for the chance to build relationships and little by little we are gaining the trust and respect of the staff. We are so excited for what the future holds at Hermano Pedro.

On a more adventurous note, due to the pouring rain, we took a TukTuk ride to Hermano Pedro. It was fast, very fast!


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