While I was waiting for some waves in the calm
glassy water during one of my beautiful sunrise surf sessions last week, an
idea popped up in my head. I’ve been
trying to think about the best ways to distribute the rest of the funds that
were raised for from the 100 Smiles Project campaign. I thought it would be great to go back to
Playa San Diego (a very poor community I had visited a week and a half ago) and
provide them with food and financial donations.
Andrea (from La Red Christian Surfers) and 3 of
the World Race Members (Courtney, Wendy and Nicole) came along to help me
out. We went to Selectos grocery store
to purchase shopping carts full of pasta, rice, beans, oil, tomato sauce, salt
and sugar. We packaged the items
together to make 16 love bags, brought them to Pastor Orlando’s
church/community where he had arranged for the mothers of each family to meet
prior to church service to pick up their love bags for their families. They were all very happy, grateful and
thankful. I told them that I couldn’t
have done it without friends and family at home.
I also provided Pastor Orlando with an
additional $200 to support his feeding program.
In case you missed my last blog; Pastor Orlando feeds a community of 100
plus people almost every day. This money
will help him feed the community for 4-5 days.
Friends and Family at home who have donated,
you guys fed 16 families and provided 4-5 future lunches to a community of 100
plus people. Well done!
Hasta Luego!
Elly
xoxox
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