Some time ago at a chance meeting I was introduced to a saintly (I now believe) couple who have a company that sells Daycare furnishings. Lo and behold, they also donate. So the Roatan Daycare Center has been the receiver of a container of their things…a gift of huge proportion and one that will always be remembered and appreciated.

Our small center building in Coxen Hole, Roatan has been improved about as much as it could be but our furniture has been make-shift, some deteriorating or broken. Because of the company, ECR4Kids we now can operate with new tables, chairs, shelves, sleep mats, bicycles (now if only we had a place for the children to ride them…unfortunately the municipal trucks park in the space where the children used to play), a tumbling mat, easels, and on and on.

Imagine the joy of the staff who work every day with these new items. It is like Christmas to them and the children too. How can a contributor like this be thanked adequately…they can’t. It has to be a case of that good that they do coming back to them in different ways, and if what is said is correct, it will come back tenfold.

We also were given enough chairs to be able to donate them to others beside the Daycare. Already, some items have been given to PIER, the educational project, and are already in use to their delight. We are so fortunate and celebrate the human kindness that is apparent in Mr. Lee Siegel and his wife, who are our heroes for doing this for us. I would wish that all those who are working to educate young ones would have the same kind of chance luck that will be of help for those children in their care.

Judith Allred – Director, the Roatan Daycare Center