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This year marks 26 years of Predisan and 25 years of CEREPA! We have much to celebrate and our walks will be a time of celebration!

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SCHOLARSHIP DONATIONS NEEDED

Twenty students are still in need of scholarship funds for the 2013 school year. Please donate to our scholarship fund.

$300 will send a child to school for a year !

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Predisan has partnered with THRIVE Farmers Coffee to support our ministry work in Honduras.

 

THRIVE Farmers Coffee is a unique, farmer-direct coffee company that provides coffee directly from the farmers in Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.  With THRIVE, every cup serves two - you receive artisan quality, specialty grade coffee and the farmer receives economic support greatly impacting their families and communities.

 

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SUMMER  2013

 

 

 

Linda Trevathan, Board President

 

 

The Future Leaders of Catacamas Program is helping 151 children just like Dilcy i

 

The scholarships were created to support students who are economically disadvantaged and who have achieved grades of greater than 85 percent. A donation of $300 for one year provides a child with a required school uniform, shoes, school supplies, access to medical care, tutoring and counseling by our staff, and a monthly stipend to help the child and the family.

Each donor is assigned one or more children and receives information periodically about the child's family and the child's progress, academically and emotionally.

But there is always a need for more sponsors, says Juan Carlos Reyes, the program's director. In fact, 20 children currently do not have sponsors and will not be able to attend school without the help.  

 

 "This is a wonderful opportunity to do as Christ did, give food to those who are hungry and water to those who are thirsty," Juan Carlos says. "We make sure that every penny is put to good use."

 

 

 

Now that she has the support that this scholarship brings, Dilcy says she is working extra every day to take advantage of the opportunity. She wants to one day attend a university and become a civil engineer. Most of all, she wants to be an example to her brothers, to help them so they can graduate and all be able to help their father.  

 

"I'm just grateful to God for the opportunity, and to get to know the people who work in the scholarship program," Dilcy says. "I also thank all the people of Predisan for choosing me for this scholarship. May God help them so they can help others like me."

To sponsor a child for one year, you may donate one of two ways:

 

·         CLICK HERE to donate $300 online for each child you wish to sponsor (or send a check to Predisan, Post Office Box 72618, Marietta, GA 30007), or

·         E-mail Sharon Kemp at skemp@predisan.org to donate $25 monthly by bank draft for each child you wish to sponsor. Monthly donations by bank draft begin in February of each year.

 

School in Honduras runs from February until November, and commitments for new sponsors are finalized from November until the school year starts in February. You can commit at any time to help during the next school year.

  

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Hundreds turn out to celebrate CEREPA's 25th Anniversary

   

For 25 years, there's been an oasis in Honduras for those struggling from alcohol and drug addiction, a place where more than 3,000 people have come to be healed, physically and spiritually.  

 

Earlier this year, hundreds of well-wishers gathered to celebrate the legacy of this place that Dr. Amanda Madrid calls "God's vision realized in Honduras through Predisan."  

 

The Center for the Rehabilitation of Patients with Addictions (CEREPA) marked its quarter-century birthday with a week of events in late May, bringing together private ceremonies and public gatherings that included a walk and parade in which 2,000 people participated, including 18 schools, and current and former patients and their families.  

 

The festivities pulled together well-wishers and organizations, from the Red Cross and 11 local churches, to the National Police and the Honduran Ministry of Education.  

 

"Since this dream began, we have been committed to the rehabilitation of people suffering from addiction and to guiding the process of their integration into society after they have lost their faith and hope," Dr. Madrid says. "Our work began 25 years ago and to this day, we maintain that devotion to serve families who come to our center for solace and peace."

 

Dr. Madrid helped found the Center in 1987 and remains its ardent champion as executive director of Predisan. A highlight of the week was a plaque installed at the Center recognizing her critical role at CEREPA.  

 

CEREPA has 20 employees who in turn give quality care to patients 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The team of professionals - including doctors, psychologists, nurse practitioners, pastors, occupational therapists and administrators - is bolstered by a healthy surplus of volunteers, some who are former patients or their relatives. American missionaries and brigades also come regularly to help with infrastructure projects and training.  

 

The week's final event was a fundraising gala and dinner that featured 300 invited guests, including former patients, some of whom gave poignant testimonials, as well as a moving talk entitled "Perseverance" from one of the local church pastors. The dinner helped raise the equivalent of $3,155 for the center.  

 

"Thank God," Dr. Madrid says, "for giving us the opportunity to be an instrument for His glory and honor."  

 

She hopes that CEREPA's legacy not only will be that it is known as a professionally-run addiction treatment center, but that it has a strong spiritual component at its core, that "we have personnel trained not only in addiction treatment, but who also have the desire to share their gifts and talents to serve and love our fellow neighbors when they are hurting."

 

To find out more about CEREPA's work, please visit: http://www.predisan.org/what-we-do/cerepa-addiction-treatment-center/. To contact CEREPA, please e-mail cerepa@predisan.org,

 

 

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