The parents of Karla Lorena Cabrera Cortez, one of the students sponsored by our becados program, sent a letter of gratitude to The Least Among Us. It translates as follows:

December 19, 2006

Dear Padre Patricio and the other benefactors of this very important foundation:

Receive special greetings from the Cabrera Cortez family, wishing that in this Christmas the child Jesus and the Virgin Mary pour out abundant blessings on your spiritual works and your labors that benefit those in most need in our dear town of Santo Domingo de Guzmán.

Dear Father, by means of this letter we want to express our most sincere thanks for the most important aid that you have brought and continue to bring to our daughter Karla Lorena in the form of her scholarship that she is able to study for her technical High School degree. We are very grateful to God and to all of you who have made it possible for the youth of our town to prepare themselves academically as future professionals, especially our daughter Karla Lorena.

We are well aware that we are not able to pay back the donors for the sacrifice that they have made so that those in most need can receive such great aid but God Almighty and the Virgin Mary will repay you one hundred times one hundred. We will continue to pray for you the founders and for all the donors who contribute to the foundation and its success.

May God bless you all and may you have a Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Juan A. Cabrera
Teodora Cortez de Cabrera
Karla Lorena Cabrera Cortez

Karla is in her second year of bachillerato at the Instituto Nacional Jaime Abdul Gutierrez in Sonsonate.