Tragedy in Guatemala

March 2017 brought about a national tragedy in Guatemala, when a fire broke out in a government-run orphanage in San Jose Pinula. Over. 40 girls died as a result of being locked inside a room, and many others were transferred to two hospitals that were ill-equipped to handle burn cases such as this. It was found that the facility, which was licensed to have 500 children in residence, had over 800 youths in their care. Hundreds of children needed to be relocated to other orphanages located throughout Guatemala, which were already stretched to their limits in numbers and resources. Through generous donations of our DSI family of supporters, additional beds were supplied to two orphanages accepting relocated children, and financial donations were sent to two others. It was amazing how quickly people came together to help ease the burden of these circumstances, and show love to these children with no place to call home.