“Jonathan, how far to the next distribution?”  I said.  “No more than 20 minutes.” He responded.  A long nap and 2 hours later we were still driving.  When I arrived at a girls school in the far outskirts of Bogotá I was handed a blue bracelet that had a phrase written on it:

“Usted puede hacer la diferencio”  or  “You can make the difference.”

The school was started by a man from New Zealand.  All of the girls in the school (ages ranging from baby to 16) were rescued from the streets of Bogotá away from prostitution and drugs.  The girls live, play, and learn on the grounds of the school.  It sits in a valley surrounded by corn fields and the Andes Mountains.  Peace was there.

Probably the cutest little girls I’ve seen in my life.  Full of joy, lacking in worries of the world.  We handed out gifts to them as screams of excitement filled the air.  These kids have probably never received such a thing.  As I gave high fives and had broken Spanish conversations with the girls I didn’t want to leave.  I wanted to be a part of it all, I wanted to be a part of something that God held so close to his heart.

I could only find a little bit online about the organization, the site that they gave me is www.cda-colombia.org which is not currently working.  I found another site that had an old newsletter.

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