Educacion y Futuro--A Bed for Each Child in Bolivia

      This is not the announcement that I had hoped to make this month.  This was supposed to be the time where I announced to a community of kind and generous people that their donations, big and small, had accomplished what we'd hoped they would, and that the work on the sixteen bed shelter had been completed.  And, in fact, the final touches are being made and the hope is to have these beds occupied by needy homeless girls within the next few weeks. However, I have received word that my friend and a source of great inspiration (and the founder of Educacion y Futuro), Vincente Danhier, died on the 28th of January.  He had been hospitalized on a few occasions with acute pancreatitis, and it was clear that his condition was becoming more serious. In my last exchange with Vincente--about a week before his death--he wrote of making it back to his native Belgium in order to access more advanced medical care.  While hospitalized, he also contracted the Cov...