2516 Pairs of Shoes, 600 Toys and 1 Laptop

Over the Christmas Holiday’s we were blessed to be able to give out over 3100 gifts to needy Indian children here in Mexico.

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Many children didn’t have shoes– we put shoes on their feet.

Some children weren’t expecting a gift for Christmas– we provided them a small toy.

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And one child particularly touched our heart….

Claudia Sotomayor. She’s a 13 year who had a cancerous tumor in her leg.

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Although Claudia was week and skinny from weeks of chemotherapy she was courageous.

Claudia’s family, who are from a small town miles away were financially drained.  They were forced to sleep on cardboard boxes at the entrance of the children’s hospital because only 1 family member was allowed inside at a time.

We prayed and we also took action…

We provided our apartment in Tuxtla Gutierrez  for Claudia’s family members. We gave donations to pay for food and we gave Claudia a laptop.

“The smile on Claudia’s face is worth more than the cost of any computer”

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Update–

Claudia had to have her leg amputated.

However she and her family are reaching  out to other unfortunate children located in the hospital.

A few days ago, they invited a mother and her 3 year old boy who has also been diagnosed with cancer to stay in the apartment with them.

This isn’t the first time they’ve  reached out to others who are in the same circumstance as them.

That touches my heart…. They understand the pain and are ministering to others.

We want to thank you because you also understand children’s pain.  Your financial gifts and prayers enable us to continue reaching out to needy children here in Mexico.

We appreciate you,

The Nemer Family

Christmas 2008 News and Video

We just finished a Christmas Video of the activities as we handed out 2100 toys and goodies to tthe Tzotzil and Tzeltal Indians over the Christmas holidays.

Besides the toys, we also had clowns, pinatas, candy, toothbrushes for everyone and a few extra goodies.

We traveled for 5 days in a row and visited 2 & 3 places a day. We took Christmas day off and then traveled for 2 more days in a row.

We were also fortunate to have some gringo friends visit from San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico

In all we visited 15 Indian tribes and communities.

There are now 25 Indian Churches and missions that we work with. some of the churches met together so it made it a little easier to give out the gifts.

Hope you enjoy the video: