July 30th 2016 update

Donations flood in for SaludosNinos!  July 30th, 2016

August 5th 2016update

Suzanne and Sheila sort and pack boxes of donated goods- baby clothes,diapers,shoes,toys,books and school supplies in preparation for shipping them to Guatemala. THANK YOU to all who gave such beautiful things!

August 5th 2016update

Suzanne and Sheila sort and pack boxes of donated goods- baby clothes,diapers,shoes,toys,books and school supplies in preparation for shipping them to Guatemala. THANK YOU to all who gave such beautiful things!

July 7th 2016 update

Musical fundraiser, June 26 in Chelsea, Quebec a huge success.

Several musical performers, plus Guatemala crafts, chocolate and other sweet treats .

Thanks to Mark and Heather Evenchick for their special help at the July musical fundraiser - Mark entertained with a few beautiful songs and Heather helped run the craft table

Thanks to Mark and Heather Evenchick for their special help at the July musical fundraiser - Mark entertained with a few beautiful songs and Heather helped run the craft table

Mike and Margo who visited Saludos Ninos this year organized and hosted this highly successful musical evening on June 25th 2016 at the Mill Street in Chelsea Quebec.  

This year Sheila's daugther made  beautiful baby wraps and slings from Guatemala fabric to help support SaludosNinos!

July 7th 2016 update

Heritage College presents first aid at the teacher workshop in Panajachel.

Teachers get "all wrapped up" in the topic.

July 7th 2016 update

May 2016 - Fair Trade craft show, Wakefield - Sheila and Margot sell Guatemala goods in support of SaludosNinos!

June 30th 2016 update

  Margo and Mike organized a musical evening fundraiser for Saludos Ninos! last Saturday

night. They have been so involved since visiting and working in Panyebar last year.Margot sang in 3 languages and 

played ukelele ,a friend of ours from the MG car club sang ,too.Tito, from  Lake Atitlan,Guatemala

and Margot's brother in law performed as well - a wonderful night of music.

      Brian and I did a short slide show to show the changes effected in Panyebar over the past few years which

the crowd really liked and we  sold our crafts.  Robert ,a neighbour who came to help us build the bathrooms at Panyebar 2 years ago, sold delicious chocolate he made using Guatemala coffee, and 2 other ladies made and sold Guatemala cookies and squares. Such a magical night and the good news,  - $1400.00 was raised for SaludosNinos!

We will definitely do this kind of fundraiser again. Margot wants to make this an annual event.

     As well, we have been supported by another elementary school for next year and a local canoe trip group

raised funds for us too this weekend. So all and all, a very successful week for SaludosNinos!

     The  early childhood education and medical team from Heritage College has just returned to Canada. The workshop was a great success,  and the Panyebar  visits were well prepared by Rosario who took care of everything and was very efficient and organized. Heritage managed to donate 20 water filters to our families and have committed to more next year.  The people who supplied the filters did a presentation for the families, went and 

installed the filters , then did followup visits to ensure everything was understood and working well.WOW. 

       Now all we need is our charitable status. Wish us luck in that department.We are hard at work on that.

The Wakefield doctors are excited to return to help us next year and bring along some nurses. The Heritage team will be working in India for Me to We, so we are thrilled to have the doctors return with us to continue their examinations and treatments of the families in our program, especially now that so many families will have had

access to clean drinking water for a whole year.

     Thank you to all of you, the board members, for supporting SaludosNinos! All our networking is paying off and we

really appreciate your efforts to ensure that these wonderful women in Panyebar are successful.