Francisco with his MAC gifts :)

Updates on Francisco!

Hi everyone,

Today the educational and medical reports for Francisco came along with his MAC
photos. There are a couple of things that are concerns. Francisco is reported to be
suffering from anemia and has been given medication and vitamins. I also talked
to a CI staff member who says that he has been given further nutritional
supplements if he needed this, meaning that he has been put on the feeding program if it was needed.

Francisco is also having to repeat the second grade and his report says that his
grades are fair and he likes grammar. He has not received any educational
benefits because he is new to the sponsorship program. Francisco is not
receiving any extra help with his school work, so I asked the CI staff member to
see if tutoring might be an option for him. He is putting in a request to see if
it is. Francisco's school is large and has a library and sport court. It says
that approximately 20 sponsored children attend the school. Francisco walks to
school and it takes about 20 minutes for him to walk to school.

I also asked if he has received his SNG and was told that the family has not
received it yet. It will probably be soon because Debbie told me that the money
had been transferred.

I will post his MAC photos in his album along with the letter from the
volunteer. His letter is addressed to "Mr. Mac" :)

Dear Mr. Mac,

I hope what you receive this letter you are well in health in union with your
family. Francisco is well in health. He won the school year. We are very
proud of him because he is a very intelligent child. We pray to God to bless
and take care of him. ( I like this statement but it concerns me because of his
anemia) We thank you for your support. We received your gift, three books, a box
of crayons, a pair of socks, two cars, a little ball, two stuffed dolls, a
coloring book and play doh. Thank you. I say goodbye.

Clara Maria Campo Forrecilla

Our little guy is not smiling in his photos and maybe it is because he is weak.
Look at his thin arms. Hopefully, now that he is getting nutritional supplements
and medicine, he will get better. God bless.

Barbara's Easter Package to Francisco

Hi, here is a list of the items that Barbara is sending to Francisco and his siblings for Easter:

1 plain blue tank top for Francisco
1 pair of white briefs
1 collapsible Easter Tote
Contents
1 dinosaur pencil with dino-rabbit top erasor
1 small stuffed bunny with S on top for Sami
1 small pink gift card lamb for Evelyn with photo of herself and Steve.
1 white rubber rabbit
1 blue and 1 pink plastic egg with package of candies in each one.
1 small plastic football egg container
1 - Yellow rabbit hand puppet.

1 Colouring and Activity book
5 printed pages for paint by numbers with 6 coloured highlighters
A few pages of stickers

1 Jack and the Beanstalk reading book
1 small Oma? Elmer? Simpson hand fan and two batteries.

1 Easter card, 1 postcard of Vancouver and 13 photos.


Let's hope and pray that this package makes it to them!! There are some really neat and educational items in here that I know the kids would enjoy and benefit from. Thanks Barbara!

Hi

Hi, I just wanted to let everyone know that it is okay to send individual gifts and letters of your own to Francisco. We can do group donations and individual donations for him. If you ever feel like you would like to post or share on the group or blog, please do not hesitate. We are hoping to be able to do a SNG for him this year to help redo the walkway to the home and possibly add an additional room to help with storage. We are waiting to hear back from CI on this, so if you think that you might be interested in helping out with this, please check upcoming posts and feel free to add feedback. We hope to see photos soon of Francisco with his MAC Christmas gifts soon!

Updates

Debbie provided this information yesterday after I inquired to make sure the health and education reports were requested, as well as family photos and to see if his fundraiser funds had been sent:

"With regard to Francisco, we requested health and education reports on 12/15/2010; a family photo on 12/28/2010; and we transferred the $185.00 from FirstGiving on 1/12/2011."

Visit to Colombia

Hi everyone, I am hoping to visit Cartagena this summer and I want to see Francisco and his family. The visit is to take place the second week in July. I will know more definitely in the upcoming months, but I plan to have a 1/2 day visit with him at the center and then take him to the arcades with Evelyn and Samy. If you would like to send letters and small gifts by me to Francisco, please let me know. Thanks and God bless.