Celebrating Padre Wasson

December 21st marks the celebration of Padre Wasson’s birthday. As NPH’s founder, he helped to provide loving homes for thousands of children while fostering a sense of family for everyone. To honor his legacy and everything that he gave throughout his lifetime, every year the children of each of the NPH homes go out and do service of their own. This year, we donated clothes to members of the surrounding community while enjoying a piñata with some of the local kids :).

Each of the kids was asked to collect any unwanted clothing they had to put into a donation bin, as well as to donate some of the candy they’d been given (let’s be serious – they received WAYYYY too much sugar in the last few weeks…) to put in the piñata. On the 21st we walked into Parramos and down a little side street I had never been down, to get to some of the smaller parts of the aldea (village). Pretty soon everyone from NPH was surrounded by tons of villagers and all the kids began handing out clothing like crazy. After that, we set up the piñata (now THAT was a feat) and the kids took turns being spun around and taking a whack at it. While the setting up actually took longer than the hitting down, the kids really seemed to enjoy it. After that, some of our kids continued to walk around with bags of candy and handed it out to any child who hadn’t been fast enough to wrangle the candy from their neighbors :). Enjoy the pictures!

Nancy and Zulma carrying a bag of clothes into town

Samuel with a box of candy for the piñata!

The kids handing out clothes

Me and Fredy!

Time for the piñata!