New team

Today was our first day on sites with the new team. There's about 45 of them, all from california, most of them in highschool. I'm feeling the pressure of being the only Canadian here and when I spoke to my mom yesterday she told me she could hear and American accent... On a more serious note: the team spent the day in el gorrion at the school, we were helping out the kindergarden teacher. Crafts aren't exactly my forte, but I kept the glue out of their precious little mouths and that was enough. Lizbeth is a 5 year old, beautiful little girl whose father is out of the picture and whose mother works all day. Today she was one of the kids who didn't have any q to purchase a snack. Everyday at school the kids receive their ricemilk cup and if they have 1 q they can buy a snack... A lot of them go home to nobody and even if there's someone, they may not necessarily get anything to eat until school the following day. When I was handing Lizbeth 2 q for a snack, it occured to me that a sponsorship program can be created in which people or churches could possibly sponsor a classroom and provide them with some nutrition and calories. Almost all the kids here are malnourished, they are pale, small, their eye sight is awful, but I really feel that a guarenteed meal on school days could make such a health difference and help them have a better chance to succeed in their schooling. A q is about 12 cents here, so for 25cents, 1 kid could eat for a day, so for 150$ from a sponsor or multiple sponsors a month, the 20 kindergardeners would have some basic nutrition every day. This is my project.