capoeira

This evening we had the pleasure of visiting a Capoeira class. My sponsored child, Eugenio is in the class. It was very interesting to watch the moves, so agile and I love that they do it to the beat of musical instruments while chanting, at least I call it chanting although, technically it's not, so I am told. 



Meet my new sponsored child Rian. As you may recall from an earlier post, my sponsored child Danhilo's family has moved to another area and no longer receives services from the creche, so I will no longer be supporting him financially, but as I said before, I will always be his madriña. 
Rian has an older sibling and younger sister of 8 months. I got to meet his mother when she picked him up and took him home on the back of a bicycle.

While at the office of the creche (daycare in Portuguese), a woman came up and asked for a food basket as she had no food for her children. Now food baskets are customary for the families of sponsored children, but as it turns out this woman did not have any children in the program  but came all the way from the "interior"  which apparently is quite a distance for even if her kids qualified for the program, which I'm sure they did, it was too far to bring them. This woman looked older than her years, weathered by the elements. She told them she had 6 children, the oldest  was 8 yrs. old. The woman of St. Joseph Center, the creche, are so compassionate that they gave her a basket, for that is why they are here. To help feed and nourish the children of Remanso and if they have to extend their borders once in a while they find a way to do it. Isn't that what charity is all about. God bless these women for all they do.