Some of you have been following Danya's story since we met her on my first trip to Honduras in 2007. She's about ten years old now and still very nearly deaf, still able to say only a handful of words. But, I've got happy news to report today! She started her first week of school at Casa Ayuda, a ministry of the Catholic church a couple of hours away from her home community. She's enrolled in classes there for language therapy and also to learn sign language. She spends the week living there and comes home every weekend.
This has been a very long road. For one reason or another she's been turned away from the school before. But this time, they've got the money to send her (thanks to those of you who bought coffee from us and gave donations while we were home for Christmas) and she is emotionally mature enough to spend the week away from her parents and community. Her dad Elvin told me that on the first day she walked straight up to the front seat and participated as much as she possibly could and was making friends with the other students there.
More happy news is that medical brigades are returning to Honduras after the political crisis. A brigade is scheduled for March 5 and 6 and will be bringing hearing aids to a privately-funded free hospital in Tegucigalpa. It's been two full years since this brigade has come, and the last time they gave her hearing aids to someone else so she went home with none due to a scheduling error. I go every few months to the hospital to see when the brigade will come, to make sure she's still on the list and for any other updates or information I can follow up on for the family. I'm really hoping and praying very hard that it works this time. I would love it if Danya could hear the sounds of her environment.
Please pray with me that the adjustment to school goes well for both Danya and her family. Also pray that all the many pieces can fall into place at just the right time for Danya to take advantage of the medical brigade. I hope to have more happy news by March 5 or 6!
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