Rua Florentino O. dos Santos, 310/202

Afogados, Recife, PE., Brazil  50830/470

December 2011 

Creche bulletin for Dec 2011...number 111.

 

Dear Creche sponsors,

Creche child, Carlos Eduardo, nine months old,in his mother´s arms… Joelma Galdino, 23…. his father is José Carlos Marques, 27… does odd jobs when  they crop  up while Joelma works at Sport football club on the  days there are games.  They live with her grandmother in Shanty town, Carangueijo.   

They have running water and toilet facilities. Carlos`s parents live together no longer...  Which  of them (or maybe both) is the victim of a roving eye, history doesn’t say…. yet.

Maybe it is just plain incompatibility.  Living together demands oodles of patience, charity and forgiveness…virtues often in short supply.

 

Rafael Felipe and Raissa are two year old twins who entered the  Creche in August 2009.  The parents are separated.  Father Jose Nilton, 43, sells manguza´(a maize by-product), door to door while mother Sebastiana works  as a daily help with a local family. Raissa lives with the mother, Rafael with the father.  The twins love coming to the Creche.  Sebastiana lives in a rented room, with water and toilet while the father lives with his sister.  The twins are together only at the Creche.

 

Happy New Year to you all and thank you for your continued  help to the Creche with  its 220 children three months to sixteen years of age It is your help that makes the Creche possible.

 

Frank Murphy (Fr)