Support Team Reflections
The Deering High School support team from Maine returned April 19, 2008 from Guatemala after a wonderful week spent with Safe Passage children and staff. Click here to read their blog which captures their daily adventures in Guatemala.
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"We were protected and taken care of as a group, the way Safe
Passage takes care of its children. We felt like arms were wrapped
around us; it's understandable why the children feel so safe."
Jane Hurd, Boothbay, ME Feb ‘06
“As I sit here at my desk with the snow coming down and the cold winds blowing outside, snapshots of our time together in Guatemala steadily stream through my mind. Since leaving, these visions constantly emerge, and along with them a range of emotions.
The horror of seeing that endless dump from the hilltop, watching
alongside the vultures as the garbage trucks roared in, filling the air
with putrid choking dust, and dumped their loads into the crowds of
people waiting to find trash that would help them survive. The wonder I
felt when we crossed a garbage strewn vacant lot toward a concrete
wall, opened a gate, and saw a structure emerging out of the ashes --
the new Early Intervention Center opening this spring, with
light-filled classrooms, bathrooms, a community center, gardens, soccer
field. The tears I choked back as I listened to the children in the
transition program sing "We will be friends forever.”
Later, not
being able to hold back the tears when I asked a young widow whose
husband was shot in front of her children what Safe Passage could do
for HER, and she replied- I could not ask for more, they have done
everything for my children.”
Sharon Workman, Traverse City, MI Feb ‘06
