Rancho
Pinoy Celebrates Christmas
With the Very Special
Children
Divina Bauer and
Jack Romero attended the Christmas party of the special
children of the Unified School District of Rancho Cordova
(USDRC) on December 22, 2005.
It was an awesome feeling to see these children so excited
and happy while opening their gifts. At the same time,
it was difficult to witness the condition of these kids
and I know I should have prepared Divina before hand,
because I could see her in tears, most of the times
when some of the kids were not responding well. All
Divina could do was rub their heads and hope that her
affection can travel through the sense of touch and
all the way to their hearts.
The whole school staff was very grateful of what are
organization was doing and we promised to be more active
in 2006. We are already preparing for an Easter Hunt
party with the school and Rancho Pinoy will be there
to make it happen.
It was definitely
an experience that makes you count your blessings. I
can only imagine the lives of these children and their
families, but someone once told me that all you are
seeing is the outside and that deep inside these children,
they
live a very happy and peaceful life. They are truly
the children of God. All throughout the day the teacher
kept asking the kids to say thank you to us, but no
one was responding because they were so busy opening
their gifts and playing
with their toys. I thought I counted 6 times that the
teacher said, "say thank you," and finally
as I turn my back and head to the door to leave, one
child yelled, "Thank you Mr. Jack." We raised
$746 for these children in ANP 2005 and we will continue
to raise money in the future to support similar organizations.
We did not spend that much in celebrating their Christmas
party. Here's the breakdown ... Happy Meal hamburgers
for the kids $39.90... Gifts for everyone, $129.93 ...
Chocolate candy cane containers (courtesy of Divina
Bauer), $26.00 ... One "Thank You" at the
end of the day ... PRICELESS !
Please continue to send your donations to P O Box 1592,
Rancho Cordova, CA 95741-5741 USA or call (916) 802-1120.
