Juan Carlos Michel is a 17 year old orphan from the village of Bombita in the Dominican Republic. I met him on my missions trip and he made a huge impact on me. He’s the most sweetest, funniest, helpful boy. He made my trip so much better and always had me laughing. He would poke me and pretend to not be the one who did it which helped lifted my spirits up when I was tired and hot. 2 years later and I have not forgotten about him.
The AOTK organization opened up a center down at Bombita providing daily meals. The only sad thing is that the children have to be sponsored in order to be able receive the meal. That means many children get turned away and are not able to go inside and eat if they do not have a sponsor. Being in poverty, majority of those children will go days without a healthy meal. I experienced first hand the heartbreaking sight of hungry children wanting to go into the center but being told they cant. At the time I was there, Juan Carlos did have a sponsor and luckily was able to get a meal.
At first, this post was going to be a feature story about Juan Carlos, but then now I noticed he unfortunately has no sponsors. So i’m hoping to just throw this out there and all it takes is one person to see it and be apart of something amazing by sponsoring him.
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