Niños con Valor Children – Children and women’s home, Cochabamba

Mission worker Cheryl Van Order feels her work in Cochabamba will be challenging on multiple fronts. First of all, Cheryl won’t be residing with the man in her life while she’s there. Husband Brian Van Order is with the Construction Team that will reside with Reverend Agustin Zubieta and his family in the city. Reverend Agustin or Pepe is the new Administrator of the Diocese of Bolivia.

Cheryl and her team will stay at the New Tribes Guesthouse which Reverend Canon Kim Beard describes as a “self catered” establishment - simply translated that means the team must learn enough Spanish to visit the grocery store. :)

At the mission meeting April 4, this team received some good tips on preparing food carefully. Ideally bottled water should be used in cooking. Team mate Cassie Williams has even suggested “Javex” tables for washing fruit and vegetables to attack bacteria.

Cassie, Cheryl and teammate Janice Day are researching basic first aid. As well, Cheryl says they have the “responsibility of finding techniques for staff to better help the girls with special needs particularly in the areas of homework, discipline, compliance and social skills.” To this end, they are seeking out games to teach cooperation. Cheryl admits she’s not a “games person” and she is tenaciously trying to absorb all of the instructions in a book of marble games that one of her co-workers kindly donated. Full marks to our “non-gamer” Cheryl for discovering a great co-operative Bingo game and a quiz on preventing HIV.