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weeks, for the following 18 months. She brought medicine,
toys, clothes, and art supplies for the children. After
several trips she realized that these visits could never
provide the type of help these kids so desperately needed.
They needed consistent, constant, limit-setting, loving
adults in their lives. They also needed activities to
stimulate their learning and creativity. Nancy then
decided to come and spend a year developing an enrichment
program for the kids in February 1994 and, within a
few months of arriving in Guatemala, she knew she would
not the leave the kids after a year and return to the
United States.
In October, 1995, a young man carrying a tiny bundle
wrapped in towels arrived at the orphanage. Thinking
it was a loaf or bread, Nancy peeked inside and instead
found a baby girl. The baby was four-days old, weighed
only four pounds, and was barely clinging to life. Nancy
agreed to take the child since the orphanage was not
equipped to care for such a fragile child. The doctor
told Nancy that the baby was barely alive and would
not survive. She took the baby home and fed her with
an eyedropper. Within a few days the baby started to
come around. Nancy adopted the baby girl and named her
Gabriela Maria. Gabriela is Nancy’s constant reminder
of the tremendous potential of the children in Guatemala
and is one of the reasons she founded Semillas de Amor
and decided to build the Children’s Village. The
Village is a place where children will be loved, nurtured,
given proper medical care, and allowed to blossom. |
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