Daniella

This is Daniella.  She is absolutely one of the sweetest girls I have ever met in all my travels with Compassion. On top of that, she can do an impressive game where she does the hula hoop around her neck. The Compassion project we visited today was one that I visited several months ago when I was in the Dominican Republic with some artists I work with. That day back in June was fun and I asked to go back to this specific project because the children were just a blast to play with. I stepped into the yard today where Daniella was playing and she dropped her jump rope, ran to me, grabbed my leg and started screaming “Esposa? Esposa?” The nearest interpreter to me said she wanted to know if my wife was with me.

Back in June Amy went with me to the DR and she played games with Daniella (and about 50 other girls) and this 3 hour encounter made a huge impression on this little girl. I don’t know anything about Daniella’s life at home but I do know that she is a little girl that soaked up the love and attention in a massive way from a sweet Mommey from Tennessee. Imagine what type of connection you could have with a girl like Daniella by sponsoring a Compasison child today?

I saw some pretty amazing things today and next week I will blog about the connection between disappearing skin lesions and 9,000 gallons of water a day.

Here are some photos from the day:

Daniella doing her crazy neck hula hooping.

I’ll post more next week about how Marlboro Man ended up on my back while some of the guys from the Compassion project looked on.

This looks like the kids were laying hands on me for some type of healing but it was actaully a game that involved all of the little kids rubbing my head before I yelled and scared them away.  It was fun.

This is the neighborhood where Daniella and the other children from the project live.

~ by brianseay on November 6, 2008.