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.