A Message from Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado
For the past few months I’ve shared with you about the region of Latin America. I want to thank you for the prayers you’ve already lifted up for these beautiful people.
But I must tell you, I’ve especially been looking forward to this month. Because today, I get to write and share with you the triumphs and praises and victories coming out of Latin America!
When Edouard Lassegue, our Vice President of the Latin America and Caribbean Region, wrote to you recently, he mentioned that this region is experiencing progress in the economy and health care as well as declines in extreme poverty rates. But what does that look like?
It looks like the mothers and fathers whom you’ve prayed for who have now found work and are able to buy food and clothes for their children.
It looks like the boys and girls you pray for each month who suffer from medical conditions who are now being treated at local hospitals and clinics.
It looks like young men and women whom you pray for who are fighting for an education that will likely keep the next generation out of poverty.
It looks like you, praising God for all of the wonderful things He is doing every day in Latin America, through the resilient people of this region.
Thank you, as always, for praying daily for the children we serve around the world. Today, will you take an extra moment to thank God for the miracles happening in Latin America?
Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado
President and CEO
Compassion International
Praises
- We praise God that none of our children and their families were affected by the recent 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Peru.
- We praise God that the 18 families in Kenya, whose homes were destroyed by a fire, are all in their newly built homes and their children have returned to school.
- We praise God that the Mount Agung volcano on Bali Island in Indonesia no longer poses a threat to the island or our children and their families.
- We praise God that all cases of conjunctivitis have been treated, and the outbreak in Honduras is over.