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Buenavista Newsletter - Jan 2013
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Your help is truly making a difference!Contributing to the our youth project has never been easier. By visiting our www.oxfordhn.org page you can make a contribution of any amount with just a few clicks of the mouse. If you would like to become a sustaining donor and sign up for regular contributions that option is there for you. Every penny makes a difference for these children who without your help would not be the shining stars that they are. Make your contribution by following the link below today!
Click HERE to visit the www.oxfordhn.org webpage. Email us at: [email protected]
Tel: +504-3390-1998
Ivania, finished 9th grade with an 86% average. ¨My dream is to become a doctor. I want to help other children like my little brother. He has Down Syndrome and a heart problem. It has been very difficult for my family. But with God´s help I know I will be able to reach my dreams.´
Ivania needs a sponsor for studying 10th Grade this year. Her budget for the year is approximately $1200 to include all her materials, uniforms, books, and transport and school supplies. Thanks for the continuing support from Rick and George who have steadfastly helped this program
Highlights 2012
SOCCER SENSATIONS Here are Dunia and Sulma at a soccer game. Their team scored 4 to 0! Congratulations!
A SHINING STAR Zamantha with her mother on her 15th birthday. Zamantha finished her first year of High School in Tourism with shining grades.
FIRST GRADUATION Dunia, the first to graduate from High School!! Congratulations and many thanks to her sponsors all these years!
NEWSLETTERThe Oxford Center January 2013
THE BUENA VISTA YOUTH SPONSORING PROJECT
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First Student to Graduate
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(Translation from Spanish) “Finally my graduation day has arrived!” Says Dunia, “I still can´t believe it. I am with Andrea and Nabil in this picture because my real sponsors, Deedee and Jeff could not come from the United States. I love them very much and thank them for their support all these years. Thanks to them I have achieved my dream”.
“Here I am with my Mom and my High School Diploma. She says she is very proud of me and very thankful to God and to my
sponsors. Now my aim is to continue studying. I want to become an Agro-Industrial Engineer. I want to help my country produce better food. I hope I can find some part-time work, although here the businesses do not like their employees to study. I will try my best to be a good student. Deedee and Jeff, you are my angels! Thank you. “
Dunia´s budget for her first year of University is approximately $1300 including books, materials, transport and group work costs.
WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!
“My senior year social work was helping build a health assistance room at the local Health Center in Siguatepeque.”
SULMA: WE BELIEVED YOU COULD DO IT“I want to have my own Greenhouse and grow flowers and organic vegetables. “
Sulma, who started out as a malnourished and challenged student, finished 9th grade with an 82% average and also as an outstanding soccer player. She has won a scholarship that covers tuition, and room and board to study agriculture in a Technical School this year. She will need uniforms, boots and working shoes, personal effects, sneakers and some basic school supplies in order to go. Her budget including transport is approximately $400.
We want to help them too
This year the Oxford Center has received several dona5ons towards helping one assistant teacher with a s5pend at the Special School, Carita de Angel (Face of an Angel). Previously this teacher was working as a volunteer as funds had not been available.
Here we see him and another teacher working in the classroom. He says, “I feel much beHer now as I can cover my bus fare and expenses, also I feel like I am part of the staff now. I am on the payroll!” Many thanks to the generous sponsors for their assistance.
HEIDY MEZA COULD NOT GO TO SCHOOL THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF LACK OF FINANCIAL MEANS. For her to study 4th grade this year she has a budget of $600 for the year approximately, to include uniforms, sports uniform, shoes, materials, school supplies and other expenses the school asks for, such as monthly payment for the English and computer classes, security and purchasing a desk.
Ángela, a single mother, bravely completed her second year of High School in Business Administra5on during her pregnancy, making up her exams immediately aOer giving birth to her son. She says, “It is more difficult for me now, but I will con5nue to study. I want my son to have a beHer life than I had. I will do everything possible to become a professional.” If God will´s I will graduate this year in Business Administra5on”. Her budget is approximately $1200 for the year.
“Most important of all is the education of girl children, for these girls will one day be mothers, and the mother is the first teacher of the child.”