A task that cannot wait
Nadolny, Edmund S.
it wished in its domestic policies, and that Costa Rica would do presidential campaign, Arias skirted the Nicaraguan issue. nothing about it. Under no circumstances would he favor ...
...To pray," he answered...
...Ronald G. Roll were brought to the crib room...
...Will they had not been washed for a long time...
...Were they looking for their father...
...William storage...
...you do for water...
...We found her in a shack half way up a hill told that there are 40 million orphans in Latin America...
...nently...
...it overwhelmed by the impact it had made on me...
...How many more classrooms do you need...
...We now took our camera water...
...His past orientation as well as base from which contra forces might operate against current statements left no doubt that he would steer clear of Nicaragua...
...for someone to care for them for a day...
...Our cameraman, a Canadian FATHER EDMUND S. NADOLNY is pastor of St...
...Her home was no hoping to make an impact, through our film, on others...
...I asked...
...citizens adopt some of these children...
...I ended larger than our average closet...
...Unrefrigerated mothers' milk lasts twelve hours while Wasson invited us to their temporary orphanage...
...One boy was lame, and one girl had a broken arm...
...We approached her shack through a city 100,000 of them reside in Honduras...
...for our people...
...I asked...
...He was more policy...
...Where does she live...
...It seems likely, in spite of the caused a withdrawal of investments in the banana industry and cautious position toward Nicaragua which Arias has taken in had increased unemployment...
...Sister Elizabeth Ann Schildmeye, O.S.F., was a nurse whose niece was helping her THE NEXT day we traveled to Casa Temporal, a temporary attend to the health needs of many of the sick among the shelter...
...After his election in February, the New York Times uneasy with Nicaragua, believing its government had come reported that Costa Rica and Nicaragua had agreed to norunder the strong influence of Cuba, and that Nicaragua had malize relations...
...We have more children than cribs," "What are your plans...
...Some things just can't she will look more pathetic when they put her on the street to wait, and mothers' milk is one of those things...
...We were mother's home...
...While we were at the "There are many unemployed teachers who are not hired by shelter, the children were having dinner...
...children had a parent or parents, but what was obvious was the My first question to the sisters and priests was, "What do parents had been excluded from the country's poor economy...
...As we began to ascend the hill, I looked for signs of were lying a few feet from the traffic...
...Although some pipes and doing something for the education of these children...
...Under no circumstances would he favor Publicly he handled it gingerly, nevertheless coming to be providing aid and comfort to the Somocistas, or providing a labeled the "peace" candidate...
...I their mothers had brought them to the hospital and abandoned asked...
...We got into our truck, went shopiteering adults will take a pretty girl and break a limb so that ping, and came back with a refrigerator...
...Most tain...
...are picked up for prostitution, pornography, and begging...
...Conv., had just been assigned there...
...She was cooking on an open fire...
...Yes," she replied Under the bridge in the heart of the city is a river whose "but it takes a lot of red tape...
...Sister Patricia Gould, R.S.M...
...These come to find a better world...
...The shelter's budget, the government because there isn't enough money in the edulike the Junta National budget for social purposes I learned, cation budget...
...All we need is financial aid...
...We drove up a bumpy dirt road filled to the peasant shacks - no larger than a small carport and with holes and rocks...
...provided of Figueres has long proposed, but a flat abrogation of Costa course, the Reagan administration does not threaten Costa Rica's foreign debt - far more than Arias thinks the nation can Rica, which has the highest per-capita foreign indebtedness in expect...
...toward the stadium...
...I noticed that some children O.F.M...
...So these children will resort to noticed a sign in Spanish: "To serve is to live...
...Children kept coming to be stolen by pornographers for business...
...He agreed...
...As we came down the mountain I felt I was descending Later, the director of the shelter explained that there was Mount Tabor...
...These children had a family, but they Outside our hotel, children were roaming around looking were orphans - economic orphans...
...Will they sisters and priests did not answer the question...
...To pray that we can find water "What do you need most...
...Two toddlers were eating together...
...them...
...I could see none...
...We finally reached the top of the winding housing families of ten...
...Tercera told me Walking through the dump back to the car, we stumbled about the great numbers of "economic orphans," children upon two children searching for anything that might prove of from families with one or both parents who could not afford to value...
...What escaped filming, began with Mr...
...Will they die early the rectory and convent looking for some kind of help, so the because of an untreated sickness or malnutrition...
...The need for an orphanage was Instead, as we talked to each person separately, a more beginning to strike home...
...Some had a box for a home...
...around me...
...were coupled in cribs...
...The 32,000 inhabitants...
...My need to do son has operated an orphanage for over thirty years in Cuer9 May 1986: 275...
...beg...
...Raphael Tercera, bureau chief of the CBS however, was the question I asked myself: What keeps her office in the capital, Tegucigalpa, who generously offered to going, with absolutely nothing to rely on except her grandarrange for our permission from the Junta National to travel son's shoe-shine donations...
...hoping to find work...
...Father Wasrefrigerated milk lasts up to fifteen days...
...If she does not return with a certain amount of money, she When we were completing our filming at the shelter, I will be severely punished...
...Sister Patricia lifted up Juanita, whose heart funds...
...Pray for government transportation...
...she emphasized with a determined fist...
...After dinner they size of my own parish garage in Connecticut...
...Close by was their mother - a look of hopelessness keep them at home...
...I made a mental note about praying for the water also a tremendous need for mothers' milk...
...One is two-years-old and send pipes and pumps up the mountain for these people...
...The teacher's Our camera crew went over to the rectory, a house half the aid appeared to be their substitute mother...
...countryside - where there is 30 percent unemployment - Would you at least help with the cribs...
...Furthermore, acts against Costa Rica, while Costa Rica agreed to send a new he believed that the PVP was now under the influence of the .ambassador to Managua, and to continue a position of neuSandinistas, and that it was attempting to stimulate domestic trality...
...We asked her if we could film it...
...Sometimes prof- something overcame me...
...fathers had abandoned the mothers...
...She has seventy children in each class and many on the ten-years-old...
...It fomented strikes that had apparently the Central American conflict...
...The has heart trouble and the other child has a bad case of asthma...
...the world ($1,800 per person), with the withdrawal of AID When I talked to him in October 1985 in the middle of the funds and other support...
...We don't want our As soon as I sat down they came over to me and put their arms children to become uneducated orphans...
...He told me that he had four children waiting on a corner begging...
...Commonweal: 274 They are snatched and never found again...
...It wasn't difficult to find them...
...HONDURAS: FACING THE NEXT...
...I initiated this journey dump...
...The priest had clothes on that obviously Eventually, will these children, too, be abandoned...
...parents, but were economic orphans...
...Earlier, I had seen a group of little boys, That afternoon, we drove out of the city to a barrio, a aged five to twelve, lying under the bridge to protect them- settlement of over 32,000 people living along a large mounselves from the elements...
...Sister Elizabeth Ann needs more classshelter was filled with children from a few months old to rooms...
...Again, these children had "Where are you going to get the teachers...
...My final question to the directress was, "Can U.S...
...Richard Frechette and Fr...
...seminary, convent, and rectory...
...NADOLNY to leave his immediate family, who lives three hours from the city, to stay with his grandmother...
...cooperation of the local Honduran CBS office, and with I asked...
...The directress also gave me a banks are peopled with peasants who moved there from the list of needs and said, "My government is too poor to help us...
...It demanded not just a sharp recent years, that Costa Rica will reassert a more friendly modification of all Latin American foreign debt structures, as stance toward Nicaragua during his presidency...
...There was no electricity, no sanitation road only to find a worse road that almost broke our axles (and facilities, and water was drawn from a contaminated well filled our necks...
...with cameras to certain areas in Honduras...
...Nicaragua apologized for any unintentional become more intolerant of civil rights at home...
...Mothers were trying to erty were rows on rows of temporary homes of people who had wash the little clothing they did have at the river...
...end up on the streets begging...
...Sixty percent of the mothers were single parents...
...not to serve is to anything to find money...
...who was interested in "Near the soccer stadium," he replied...
...We'll do the rest," had been cut drastically...
...GENERATION A task that cannot wait ,; : .p EDMUNDS...
...Arias continues to support a negotiated settlement of unrest in Costa Rica...
...The trucks filled with water that come At night we have to rush them to the hospital and we have no here often can't make the mountain...
...If tie did not shine shoes, his N FEBRUARY I hired a television film crew, through the grandmother would have no income...
...They lived at this temporary shelter because waiting list...
...the social worker said...
...That impact she looked frightened but consented...
...producing a television program on the poverty of Honduran That night our camera crew went to look for his grandchildren - started a journey throughout the country...
...All around the church propNaked and dirty children came to us...
...rainy season is short...
...frustrating picture of needs emerged...
...The government doesn't have the money to "Do you see those two children...
...Otherwise, they may be lost perma- die...
...On the mountain top was a Catholic church, from the river...
...In many ways I wish I had never gone there...
...the "At least ten more...
...right-wing pressure for an agressively anti-Sandinista foreign In 1983 he somewhat amended his views...
...was so weak...
...caught the camera lens...
...Vincent Ferrer Church working in Honduras, explained that some abandoned children in Naugatuck, Connecticut...
...mothers come to the shelter to give their milk, the problem is The following day, Fr...
...I stopped one boy to ask As we got into our truck to continue our journey, we saw if he would shine my shoes...
Vol. 113 • May 1986 • No. 9
