The university in Rubio has asked if we can use eighteen students to help out over the summer to complete their community service requirement. Each student will work 120 hours for our Help and Hope Center. Of course we said yes. Today these students begin serving in the following churches: Faimilia de Dios in La Victoria, Palmita, Bramon, Santa Rita, Poblado and Villa Bahareque. The students will also work at our Rubio help and Hope Center location. The students will provide a reading and writing clinic for poor children in these locations under the supervision of our staff. The church congregations also have the opportunity to show the love of Christ to these children all summer. A large turnout is expected.
It’s been a dream of mine for some time to provide an early reading and writing intervention for these children. A child that can’t read at ten or eleven years old has a huge problem catching up with his class and is a big drain on our resources when they show up at the Help and Hope Center. My hope is that this becomes a continuing program and provides poor children a big head start in school and success.
