Today we had the opportunity to speak with the children from Henry’s school – The Dormer House School in Moreton in Marsh. The motto at Dormer is ‘I am, I can, I ought, I will.

The school has kindly included TeamHelps as one of the charities that they will support in this years Charity Day. Creative plans are already underway to help Henry’s friends in Guatemala. It’s good to see the children really putting the school motto into action. There was a lot of ‘I will’ speak after the assembly!

(Dormer’s website is at www.dormerhouse.co.uk)

The assembly today was heartwarming. The children did so many things to raise funds throughout the year. They also kindly gave us laminated photos of each of the classes. We plan to take these with us so that the families that we work with in Guatemala will have pictures of the children who cared enough to care for them.

Tomorrow Henry and I are going to do a general assembly at St Egwins. The students have been steadily raising money for TeamHelps throughout the year and the headmistress Mrs. Armstrong tells me (at last count) that they have raised £1834. That money will go to install stoves in over 25 homes. The children have been amazing with their creativity and their tenacity for helping other children in Guatemala. We’re excited to go in and thank them tomorrow.

This year we will be combining our team with a team from Texas. We’re booked for August 10-19th. Last year when we did the work we were able to help a lot of families by installing stoves, but there were so many other things that we could have done for the families while we were with them in the homes. This year, Helps is expanding the projects to include the installation of water filtration systems and concrete floors. Imagine what it would be like to live, eat and sleep in a mud floor home. Just by pouring concrete it is such a major upgrade in the quality of life. That, combined with the fact that the water a family will have access to will be clean makes the project seem even more fulfilling.