Our Family

Meet every child by name.

This page is just for you. In August we spent a week in Cartagena with the kids, with their moms and grandmothers, and with the teachers who show up every single morning. These are the photos from that week.

Every child here has a name, a favorite food, and a plan for who they're going to be. Several of them want to be doctors. Take your time with them. You helped build the classroom where they wrote those dreams down.

The Students

Their student ID cards

Thirty-one cards, one for each child. Their name, their photo, and in their own words what they like to eat, who they live with at home, and what they want to be when they grow up. It's in Spanish, exactly the way they told it to us.

Open the ID cards

PDF, 31 pages, 0.9 MB

A week in photos

The welcome the kids prepared themselves, a day at the pool, lunch out, and a lot of dancing. Nothing here is staged.

Students and volunteers gathered under the Colombian flag decorations at the welcome celebration
Students in yellow Colombia jerseys smiling together at the celebration
A volunteer with two students in front of the Colombian flag backdrop
Volunteers and students posing together during the celebration
Children playing in the pool on the outing day
Four boys giving a thumbs up outdoors in front of green plants
Girls performing a dance in the school courtyard
The younger students clapping along during the show
A volunteer handing out sombreros vueltiaos to the children
Full group photo of students, teachers and families under the pavilion
A family in the pool with the youngest children
Students, families and volunteers together at the day trip
A boy praying before lunch at the table
A volunteer dancing with a neighbor at the gathering
A girl smiling in the pool with a float

Thank you for making room at the table

None of this happens without you. The classroom, the lunches, the ride to the pool, the teachers who show up every single morning. You're the reason these kids had this week, and the reason the 232 children still on our waiting list have something to hope for.

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