Monday, January 14, 2013

Your donation for food

At the last event we held here at the DoubleShot, before things got busy during the holidays, we raised money for a scholarship fund that we've given to in the past.  But the money raised at the event wasn't enough to help a student pay for housing and tuition for a semester, as is our usual donation, so we decided to help a different cause.
Hogares Juveniles Campesinos is a house in Concordia, Colombia that hosts students from the rural areas of Concordia that go to school in town but have no relatives or a place to stay during the weekdays.  The house gets support from the Colombian government, but the money comes too little and too late, so they struggle to survive.  This service is so important because it serves the children of low-wage coffee pickers, allowing them to go to school and get an education.  So we gave your donations of $200 to Hogares Juveniles Campesinos (Farmers' Kids' Home) to help them buy groceries.  I thank you and they send their thanks to you.  Below are some pictures from the home.