In September 2009, I learned that a women in Bisan, a village in the Guatemalan highlands, had been murdered, leaving her 5 children without a mother. I had been to Bisan and, though I had never met \u201cRosa\u201d I could imagine the terrible circumstances surrounding her death.\u00a0Rosa\u2019s 5 children were now orphans without a father or other family members to help take care of them.<\/p>\n
I began to raise money to help support the children (here called \u201cRoberto, Elena, Angel, Maria and Mario\u201d). And in\u00a0December, my friend Fernando and I traveled to Bisan to meet the children.<\/p>\n
This bi-lingual book,\u00a0Rosa\u2019s Children<\/em>, is the story of that visit. The book is a fundraising project; all money is donated to pay for food, medicine, clothes and school fees for these 5 orphans.<\/p>\n Rosa\u2019s Children<\/em>\u00a0is illustrated by Carlos Chavez, a Maya Kaq\u2019chikel painter from San Juan Sacatepequez who donated his art to help support the children. Carlos Chavez\u2019s work can be seen on his website:<\/p>\n www.carloschavezarte.com<\/a><\/p>\n Here are some illustrations from Rosa\u2019s Children:
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