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Gabby Pedroza begins Glory Hands For Venezuela to help others In effort to help babies and children survive in her home country, LWC student Gabby Pedroza is starting a foundation, Glory Hands For Venezuela (Manos Gloriosas para Venezuela), and asking questions of her American family and friends about how to raise funds and how they might be able to get help directly to those in dire need. By Linda Waggener Jeanne and Charles Marshburn of Columbia are host parents to six Lindsey Wilson college international students. A friend of one of their students, their kids, as Jeanne calls them, has a goal to somehow help kids in her Venezuelan home: "This young lady at Lindsey Wilson is truly an inspiration. She is a brilliant girl. Came to LWC from Venezuela at the age of 16 (I think) and is now on her 3rd year here (I think). Over the summer she worked with starving babies & children in Venezuela and then came back here to school and has organized raffles and a blood drive to help her sick and hungry country. The pictures of her holding starving, dying babies is heart breaking. I sincerely believe this "child" will find ways to help thousands and am so proud to know her." -- Jeanne Marshburn Gabriella 'Gabby' Pedroza, a junior and a Star tennis player at LWC, hopes to find a way to raise money to help young children who are living in dire conditions back home in San Carlos, Cojedes, Venezuela. She discovered on her last trip home, a mission trip, that as the government changes there, the lives and living conditions of everyday ordinary people are finding it almost impossible to earn a living and pay rising costs of survival. At age 18 she is just beginning to learn the ways of government. She has learned that it's extremely difficult to put supplies into the hands of young people who have desperate needs when most of what is given gets stolen before it ever gets to those in need. She is asking questions of her American family and friends how to start to raise funds and how they might be able to get into the hands of those in need in her country. Gabby says her host parents, Mike and Joann Payne, of Columbia, have been a tremendous help to her in her two years in Adair County. One person who responded to Gabby's goal of beginning to raise funds was Sabine Eastham, director of the LWC International Education Program. She donated a bicycle and the money raised, $236, is the beginning of Gabby's organizational treasure chest. She said her church, Outreach for Jesus, has also been very helpful to her while in the US. Gabby says her birth year marked the time of the government change from when Venezuela is remembered to have been a wonderful place to live and raise a family. She said that during her lifetime she has only known the difficulties of present leadership in her home country. She grew up on a farm, in Countryside that looked much like that of Kentucky, where they raised cattle and horses and crops like corn. As she begin to look at college while still in high school she made applications as for scholarships for tennis players and Sid Lindsey Wilson made the best offer. In her tennis career she has seen the states of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio and Illinois. She speaks three languages, Spanish, Italian and English as her third language. She says that her English is much better now after having lived in the US since age 16. As she enters her third year of college, she is beginning to focus on specialty classes toward a career choice in healthcare. Her visit to Venezuela only made her deep desire to help others stronger than ever. Part of her College completion will be devoted to the hard work of finding ways to raise money and place it so that it helps the very people who are in the greatest need. Gabby's foundation is called Glory Hands For Venezuela (Manos Gloriosas para Venezuela). She can be reached at 270-250 9017 for more information. This story was posted on 2017-09-22 08:32:01
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