In 2005, EDFK Connecticut began supporting all the food and nutritional costs for 22 girls in an orphanage, Fundacion Sor Dominga Bocca, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.  Our interaction with these girls began when a member of our congregation, Lyndsey Ellis, went to work with them from June to September of 2000.  She witnessed the daily lives of these girls and lived as they did for that time.  She went with them each week when they went to a local grocer who let them pick through his garbage to find food.  She baked bread and cakes with them so they could raise money to buy the rest of their food.  She helped teach them music and dance in the hopes that they might win a talent show given by a rich benefactor for several area orphanages - the prize, food for a year.  She watched as they lost the contest, chipping away their hard won self-esteem. With the creation of our branch of Every Dollar Feeds Kids in 2002 the potential to offer support to these girls was created.  In 2004 EDFK, Connecticut finally achieved a level of finanacial stability that allowed us to fulfill our obligation to support VAMOS! in Mexico and begin to send support to the girls in Ecuador. Yet one large stumbling block remained.  There already existed a secure way to get funds to Mexico due to the hard work of EDFK, California and VAMOS!.  However, a means did not yet exist to securely transfer funds to Ecuador.  Monies transported via the Central American postal services routinely "disappear" and international wiring of funds is expensive and not always secure.  The better part of 5 months was spent setting up a secure method of transfering funds to the girls.  At last, in January 2005 money was sent to them for food, so that they would no longer have to pick through the garbage. The orphanage Director, Rosa Jimenez Marin, was extemely happy to receive this news.  She has recently sent word that the girls finished school this year without one of them dropping out, several won good student awards, and that some girls are taking swimming lessons on their summer vacation.   These events may seem small, but to these girls they are victories over their daily hardships. Lyndsey's parents, Rev. & Mrs. Ellis, went to visit the orphange during the summer of 2004 and returned asking the EDFK Board of Directors one question: Can we assure them that they will never have to pick over garbage again? We have assured them. They will never have to pick over garbage again.  Ever.