Fiesta time!

As I said in an earlier post it's been a super busy week here at Little Hands.  If you don't know, our family is blessed to be staying on the property of the Little Hands Big Hearts Ministry.  Little Hands works with the families of special needs children from all over Trujillo. They see the children receive medical care (most when they come here have never seen a Dr of any kind), have classes for the children, help with beans and rice, etc etc (you can learn more on their website, maybe you will even be moved to help!).  This week they invited all their families to come.  All day each day they have worked with the families.  Some teaching them physical therapies they can do from home, some overseeing dispensing medications and ensuring parents have a full understanding of what is needed, also classes and therapy were done here on site.  The families would arrive around 8-9am and stay til around 4pm each day.  Today however, was a fiesta day.  

They did some work this morning and then we had a big lunch.

Bean soup, plaintains, yuca, chicharrones (pork skins), watermelon, rice, etc

It was delicious!!  That's Myra the cook in the orange and yellow dress....and Maybelline in the foreground (she and her husband, Yefrin are the directors of this work that is overseen by the Summit View church in Washington State)

After lunch the kids were SOOO surprised and overall (minus one) delighted when 4 clowns came out and sang songs with them and played games.  And then the clowns led them up the path past our house to the entrance gate.  Where each child put their handprint and name on the big black entrance gate.  

I love it!!  It makes it look like such a happy place to enter now!!  I just love it!

(I didn't get to watch too much.   I took one little boy, Elton,  who was quite fearful of the clowns to our house to help to try to distract him while the fun was going on.  because the clowns moved the kids back down to the main building as soon as their handprint was done for more activities.  He did go later when all the clowns were not at the gate and do his handprint though!!)

and what's a fiesta without a pinata??  

here at Little Hands it doesn't matter if you can't see (like Isabel above who sees very little) or walk (like the boys in the background of this picture). It was fun seeing all the families interact with one another this week and help each other.  Each child, no matter their challenges, got a swing at the pinata and had a great time and were made to feel very special today thanks to all the hard work of the Little Hands staff!!  

The day ended with my tiny contribution to the celebration.
Maybelline had asked me if I could make a cake.

A great big cake that thankfully stretched and everyone was served!!