June Birthday's

This is the story of Naomi, a 6 year old girl who at this tender age was in need of a third eye surgery to correct a problem that she was born with that caused her eyes to be severely crossed.  Naomi is the third of 4 sisters rescued by the Juvenile Court and she was the most affected due to the malnourishment in which she was growing up.  Naomi's problem was not only her vision, but also her chronic sinusitis that made it impossible to have the eye surgery. Under treatment for chronic sinusitis she was not able to eat ice cream or have cold drinks and keeping her away from that was almost impossible.  On May 5th her sinusitis gave her a break and one of the Tias left immediately with Naomi to Tegucigalpa, the Capital City of Honduras, located 4 hours from San Pedro Sula where the home is located and an eye surgeon who was a specialist in this condition was able to perform the surgery in one of the most prestigious clinics in Honduras.  Our Little Roses thanks the generosity of one of our Board Members who provided the financial support for her to have the eye surgery. There is no doubt that this successful surgery has made a tremendous difference in Naomi's vision and quality of life.  After she returned to San Pedro Sula, Naomi told T�a Caty, who is one of the staff:  "Now I see only one of you, before I saw two of you at a time".

In Honduras, Mother's Day is celebrated as in many other parts of the world on the second Sunday of May. Every school has special celebrations where the students take part in different presentations in honor of the Mothers.   Staff from Our Little Roses accompanied the girls to the different schools to be present as Mothers for the different programs.  At Holy Family Bilingual School each grade had a paper for each Mother but only one of the papers had the name "Mother" written on it.  This year, the privilege was for Tia Brenda Molina, Coordinator/Supervisor of the Home who was elected as The Mother of Holy Family Bilingual School.