Cruzadas
Mission in La Ceiba Needs Your Help
This
is for all friends of Cruzadas Mission in La Ceiba,
Honduras. I have recently spoken with Sister Eleanor
and followed up with an email conversation with her daughter,
Sandy. The mission is experiencing severe financial
difficulties. Sandy writes, " We
are finding it difficult to keep up office expenses and
maintainance expenses, such as watchmen (guards), office
salaries, telephone and lights, maintainance on vehicles. We have 2 vehicles
out of use and the third one also needs maintainance, one
phone line cut off because of lack of payment. We
also had to close one of the feeding kitchens this month,
the one at El Pino. We almost had to close the
one at the garbage dump, but got for a couple of months."
Sister
Eleanor related to me that but for a substantial donation
last month from a friend of Cruzadas, they would not
have been able to pay the workers, buy each girl
one Christmas present and have enough food for everyone.
Apparently ther is a possibility of loosing
some electricity on the compound.
She
also explained that one contributing factor to their
difficulties is the rise in cost for the girls in
the dorm. At the beginning of the girls' dorm, each sponsor
was asked to commit to $100 per month for his/her
sponsored girl. But as the girls have gotten older and
have advanced in school, the expenses for each one has
also escallated. In other words, the $100 sponsorships
are no longer enough to cover each girl's expenses.
I know this is a financially difficult time
for a lot of people here in the U.S. also, and there is certainly
no lack of need in other parts of the world. All of those
who have been doing a great job of collecting needed items,
i.e. clothing, food, furniture, medicine, etc., to send on
the containers and funding the shipping of the containers,
in order for Sister Eleanor and Cruzadas to be able to help
the people of Honduras is greatley appreciated by the Cruzadas
Mission. I am letting the friends of Cruzadas know
of their needs at this time and pray that we can now send
some help to "the helper" in La Ceiba.
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