Grace Circle Mission - Helping Nicaraguan Babies September 2008

The members of Grace Circle brought onesies, new baby outfits, hats, diaper pins, pacifiers, and rattles to their September meeting to help Nicaraguan babies.  Jeanne Kovanda, one of their members, shipped these items to Austin Samaritans, where they were assembled into about 30 layettes by wrapping the items in receiving blankets. 

Jeanne’s friends Dr. Geoffrey and Elizabeth Erwin then took these layettes on the annual fall Austin Samaritans’ mission trip to Managua, Nicaragua.  Dr. Erwin, an OB/GYN, helps in the clinics, so he and his wife can personally deliver the layettes to new moms.  The clothes in these layettes may be the only clothes that some new babies have; some less fortunate babies go home wrapped in newspaper!

Read more about the Austin Samaritans and some of their projects in Nicaragua on their website at http://www.austinsamaritans.org/default.aspx?section=news.

	On the left, Linda Byrd and Patti Moore help get the layettes ready for the Nicaraguan infants who need them so badly.  Below, the Austin Samaritans transport donated items to Nicaragua.
The photos above and below were taken in Nicaragua.  Elizabeth Erwin from Austin Samaritans is in the photo below on the left with a Nicaraguan mother and her baby.

Our thanks to Jeanne Kovanda for obtaining the photos
and to Kathie Samuelson for the information!

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