Elías Sánchez Hernández es la persona más nueva que se une a nuestro equipo. Él supervisará el programa de becas pues tenemos ya 41 estudiantes en este programa. Elías ha sido un voluntario ya de mucho tiempo y este año nuestro distribuidor más grande de despensas; en algunas semanas más de 100 de las 300 enviadas. Muchas veces usaba su motocicleta pues las áreas no eran accesibles por camión. A él le importa mucho la gente y conoce a todo mundo! Somos muy afortunados de tenerlo!
For those of you who were not in Zihuatanejo or unable to attend it was a beautiful afternoon. Jimi Mamou opened with a beautiful song in tribute to his long time friend.
Juanito Zihua, Solo Tres and Don Gabriel from Petatlan all played for us in honor of Lorenzo. He did love his music. ABC Diario newspaper filmed the event live. The link is below.
Thank you to all that attended and sent their heartfelt messages in honor of Lorenzo. I think he would have been pleased. He made a huge impact on this community and he will be missed.
For those who knew Lorenzo well, you know he loved his books, he owned over 1000 books. We spoke often about what we would do with all those books once he was gone but like everything else the answer just fell into place.
We will be building another classroom at Bachilleres Zihua and when I asked what they needed, they said a library. Good answer! We already have books and bookshelves to stock it. Lorenzo loved history and non – fiction, what a fitting place for his books to end up. The books are in English but the students do study English.
Farewell, my friend, I will miss my daily conversations with you to share the latest Por Los Ninos updates. Lorenzo, was not that active the last 3 years with the foundation but he so loved to be kept abreast of what we were up to.
It is with a heavy heart that I read about the passing of Lorenzo. I am happy he passed peacefully in his sleep.
We first met Lorenzo when we sailed into Zihuatanejo, in 2017, aboard our sailboat, Peregrina.
This is one of our pictures, from 2017, of Lorenzo. He had the kindest face imaginable!
As a sailor, I now think of Lorenzo as setting sail. He, indeed, would make a stout ship. The poem below is a perfect tribute to a fine shipmate.
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The Ship
I am standing by the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze
and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength,
and I stand and watch
until at last she hangs like a speck of white cloud
just where the sun and sky come down to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says, ‘There she goes!
Gone where? Gone from my sight – that is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull and spar
as she was when she left my side
and just as able to bear her load of living freight
to the places of her destination.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at the moment when someone at my side says,
‘There she goes!’ There are other eyes watching her coming,
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout :
‘Here she comes!’
Lorenzo a kind gentle soul with many words who could always make my inability and abruptness of the English language correct, soft and gentle. He said all kids in the world were beautiful, but the Mexican children were the most beautiful. Every time we visited kindergartens; he would say don’t you just want to take home a dozen of this cuteness. He will be thoroughly missed at the head chair at the office. Rest In Peace Lorenzo.
Lorenzo a kind gentle soul with many words who could always make my inability and abruptness of the English language correct, soft and gentle. He said all kids in the world were beautiful, but the Mexican children were the most beautiful. Every time we visited kindergartens; he would say don’t you just want to take home a dozen of this cuteness. He will be thoroughly missed at the head chair at the office. Rest In Peace Lorenzo.
Es con tristeza que anunciamos el fallecimiento de nuestro querido amigo Lorenzo Marbut. Falleció plácidamente en sus sueños. Él vino a Zihuatanejo y se enamoró de los niños de ojos grandes de color café. A solicitud de los Bellack, se convirtió en el administrador de Por Los Niños y dedicó muchos años de su vida a mejorar las escuelas más pobres.
A Lorenzo le encantaba leer y leía todo lo que estaba impreso. La biblioteca en la Primaria Centenario de la Revolución lleva su nombre.
Sus cenizas quedarán en el plantel de la Escuela de Bachilleres en Zihua, el cuál es un proyecto del cuál Lorenzo se sentía muy orgulloso.
Su legado vivirá con tantos estudiantes que se beneficiaron de una mejor educación como resultado de su trabajo con Por los Niños del Municipio de Zihuatanejo.
