After working with children all morning, I was a little nervous about working with one of the mothers. As I sat on the floor in front of her chair, I knew the only thing she could possibly say that I would understand was "Hola," so I decided to be the first to say it in an effort to at least express

Imagine being curled up in your bed at night falling fast asleep holding a pair of sneakers. It sounds ridiculous, but that’s exactly what the children want to do in the group foster home that I visited in Guatemala with Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls. SIXTEEN YEAR OLD DIEGO IS LIKE MOST OF THE CHI

"Suzi is so full of life and happy, you would never even know that she is sick." This sentence stopped me in my tracks. "Suzi?" I asked. "The Suzi that just played with us all morning and was all smiles? She seems so healthy." Then the English teacher at Buckner's Family Hope Center in Guatemala beg

"There is one final child who will need shoes today," they said as they led 4 year old Wendy over to me.   Her faced seemed slightly unsure of me as I led her to a chair and helped her take off her old, dirty, worn out sandals. Wendy's concern broke into excitement when I presented her brand new vel