The last Thursday was a black day in the history of the orphanage. As we did every day by 15 clock gathered to discuss a few things and then start with the "Actividades" told us Tio Hibo with a heavy heart that the "abuelita," the children's village grandma (Helma Schrader), died was. She is the mother of Manager Ms. Schrader Woyke and has then taken the initiative to build the orphanage. Some of the older children know them for many years and even many Tios and employees know it already from an early age. For all this news was a shock, since probably all came relatively suddenly and unexpectedly. I myself am on Friday with her previously, Tia and her husband, Liz (Mrs Woyke) traveled to Lima and all was still good. Accordingly, of course, is also currently the mood in the village and they are all pretty sad.
After Tio Hibo announced this sad news we sat together with the Tios and sought a group with some of the older kids, which we then drove directly to the funeral in a small chapel in Lima. For the three of us volunteers, it was a bit uncomfortable between all members relatives and friends of the family. But of course it was natural for us that we came along when the Tios asked us, with such a large group of children from Lima to drive. Only in the evening at 24h we came back to the village.
The next morning we again chose a group of children with whom we traveled in the morning at the funeral. There, we met on a number of former children's village children who wanted to say goodbye to her "abuelita". When we got back to late afternoon, we once again discussed and talked about the plans of the village children birthday. The birthday will turn out well, because of course no one is currently in the mood to celebrate. City meantime, we will hold a prayer service for the "abuelita".
I personally very great respect for Helma. If you can see, what is created here, how many children has given them through the cooperation of the Westaflia children's village already has a perspective on how many children have in the future the opportunity to live a decent life, which alone would have here in Peru, little chance and how many people she has helped children around the village around, then they can really look back with pride on their lives.
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