Ada y Maria

These two lovely girls are called Ada, 14, and Maria, 9 (from left to right). They are sisters who came to live at Didasko 6 years ago. They have the same father and two different mothers. Their story is something that no child should ever have to endure. It begins with Maria's mother killing Ada's mother and then turning on Ada. She poured boiling water on her, which has burned both of her arms. You can see the scars there on her left arm. She was younger than 8. After that, Ada picked up her 3 year old baby sister and runs away. They spent some amount of time out on the street; no one knows how long. But in that time they begged for money, slept wherever they could, ate anything they could find including trash. Finally, the government picked them up and dropped the sisters off at Didasko. Soon after they started having problems. It was found out that because of all the trash they had eaten, there were now parasites in their brains that would remain there for the rest of their lives. Because Ada was older, her body can survive the parasites; however, because Maria was so young when she started eating trash, she now has to take medicine exactly every twelve hours or her body will go into convulsions and she'll soon die. Even though they've gone through so much, they are such happy girls. They love each other, and have shown me so much love that I'm amazed at the joy God has placed in their hearts. Please pray for these girls as they grow older and become women of God. Pray that they'll not fall into the ways of this world. Pray that they will always be comforted by the everlasting Father God.