Jennifer

Today I met a girl named Jennifer. Jennifer is an orphan with Down syndrome at Hogar Padre Juan Andres Trebolte.

Last October friends of the Wall family built Jennifer a bench swing. Jennifer would swing for hours everyday. Due to safety issues the girls moved from the building where the swing was built to a newer building in a more secure part of their campus. The only problem was that Jennifer could no longer swing. She needed supervision to go all the way to the swing and with taking care of 28 girls the nuns weren't able to do that for her. They had to add new locks to the doors because at night Jennifer would sneak out at night and swing. So they asked the walls a few months ago if they would be able to move the swing into a courtyard by the new building for Jennifer. Today we were able to do that. 

Jennifer and her friends were thrilled! Their dog, Ghosty seemed pretty happy too. 

By the way, the girl on the left is Susan. I just thought that I would mention her to illustrate the hope and future orphans still have. She is 7 years old and is reading and writing at a 9 year old level(which is almost unheard of). She is the sweetest, most outgoing young girl, that only wanted to take pictures with Ghosty. She was the first child at the school/orphanage to come up to me and start talking to me. All of the girls gave us hugs goodbye and Susan gave me a kiss on the cheek and said "¡hasta luego!"