Belize Wildfire Relief Efforts
Thanks for helping our Belize Wildfire Relief Efforts!
In mid-July, Barefoot Children Ministries delivered at least one month’s supply of flour, beans, rice, baking powder, oil, sugar, toothpaste, toothbrushes, TP, laundry soap, and bar soap to forty-five families in eleven communities. Farmers are struggling as they work to reestablish corn, cacao, and cardamom crops. Many elderly farmers are too old to find other ways to support their families.
We purchased and delivered 2,000 jippijappa palm and calabash plants to farmers who depend on these plants for their craft businesses in San Lucas and Mabil Ha. We also provided blankets, food staples, and clothing to the Pan family whose house burnt down in Blue Creek village.
Thanks to all who donated gently-used clothing, Manuela and Yuri’s temporary home was filled with smiles and hope. Both widowed women share a rental home with their thirteen children/grandchildren. Before we left, everyone had a couple of new outfits and the two-year-old refused to take off her new dress. We stopped by the home of Juan, the head catechist, who agreed to work with the sisters and BCM to provide a new house for the families. When we
returned to the states, BCM wired funds to pay for all of the materials needed to build their home.
