Beautiful Backyard After One More Try

By Bradley Burck- You need to have a look at the pictures of what we’ve done to the backyard. After years of trying to grow grass and failing, we brought in landscaping professionals. The results – FANTASTIC! Have a look at these pictures. Abel who has spent a lot of time over the years watering...

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A Heart for Orphans

We have many great staff members on our team. It would be impossible to do what we do — serve the children in our home and the community around us — without them. Alejandra Diaz is the Director of Dorie’s Promise and has been part of the team for more than eight years. If you’ve met her, you know...

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A New School Year, A New School

By Pablo Villagran- Like children across the world, ours are excited about the beginning of a new school year. But this year we are celebrating something more: an increase in scholarships that allowed 11 of our students to enroll at El Shaddai in January. Three residents on scholarship this...

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Results for You!

I want to give you an update on the education fund we have been writing about for the last few weeks.  Over the weekend we hit our goal!  We actually exceeded it by nearly $2,000.  We plan to use these additional dollars to help our teacher Claudia work with a few of the children...

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Her Health Is In Your Hands

You know what it is like to hold a brand-new baby in your arms. There is something really special about the moment. Holding that baby just reminds you of the fragility of life.       Now imagine holding a very sick little baby girl — just days old. Her mother...

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Backyard Phase 2 Finished

It has been a very busy week at Dorie's Promise. Our project to restore the backyard reached phase 2 with the installationof a new playset. You can image how excite the kids are. Take a quick look at the video and pictures of the project below.  

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El Shaddai School

By Pablo Villagran- For the first time, three children from Dorie’s Promise are attending classes at a private school. The school, El Shaddai is connected to an evangelical Christian church in Guatemala City. Residents Jennifer, Amelia, and Ana enrolled there at the start of the 2012 school...

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Saying Goodbye to Abigail

Abigail was reunited with her biological family on July 5th. Abigail came to Dorie's Promise by court order, she was left with the neighbor when her mother was delivering another baby. During that time Abigail got sick and this neighbor took her to the hospital for evaluation. Since...

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Waiting for a Second Blessing

By Pablo Villigran-   Dorie’s Promise changes lives, sometimes in unexpected ways. Just ask Karen and Curt Nichols. Although the couple has three daughters, the desire to adopt had been tugging at their hearts for years.   After deciding to take this step, they visited...

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Waiting on Adoption

By Alejandra Diaz- We hope that the newest resident of Dorie’s Promise is only here for a short time. That’s because Fredy Jose Cuc Caal is in the middle of an international adoption process. His arrival boosted our number of children to 36. We think Fredy is about four years old....

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A Real House

By Alejandra Diaz- As part of our mission to help Guatemala’s children, Forever Changed recently built a one-room house for a single-parent family that has been living in the ghetto for 16 years. Three mission teams worked on the home, which took about three months to complete because of a...

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