Belize-American donates to child care centre

Although it’s often obscured by the frantic shopping, cleaning, buying and partying, Christmas is really for the children. And to insure that no child is forgotten, one thoughtful Belizean residing abroad has taken it upon herself to spread cheer at the Dorothy Menzies Child Care Centre. For the last two years, seventy-six year old Lethia Flowers of Los Angeles has been donating supplies to the Belize City children’s home, and the latest batch of goodies will be distributed at an early Christmas party she’s hosting on Saturday.

Lethia Flowers

“I started to supply to the kids them because I went to the orphanage and my heart went out to them. I didn’t realized we had orphanage when I was growing up here, and when I came to visit I said let me just go and visit the orphanage because my grand niece had adopted a child from over here, but she didn’t get it through the orphanage. And when I went there, I said there must be something that we can do for the kids them back here and that’s the way I started, a year ago.”

“Every three months I send them a barrel of clothes, Easter, I bring the things myself and deliver to them and when school opens, I send all the school supplies, uniforms, everything.”

Jacqueline Woods

“How do you go about getting the supplies?”

Lethia Flowers

“Well, I have my family; we come from a large family and I ask for donations and the people they sure donate.”

Flowers returns to the States on Tuesday.