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| Karen Monjello and Jerry Paccione |
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| Lunchtime at a kinder in El Salvador |
Karen's Tots Fund was founded in October 2001 by DGH Board Member Jerry Paccione, and his family, in loving memory of his sister Karen Monjello. Twenty five years ago, Karen's love of children led her to open Tots' Village, a workers' day care center in Connecticut, which she directed and worked at until the day before she died.
In life, Karen's way of impacting our world embodied the aphorism, "Think globally, act locally." Now that she's left us in body, we hope that through this memorial, her spirit can act globally in a profound way, supporting the lives of many hundreds of needy children.
Donations to Karen's Tots Fund go to support, dollar for dollar, DGH projects that do the kind of work Karen did at Tots' Village. In this way, we can help spread the love she offered the lucky kids at Tots' Village to some of the world's most disadvantaged children.
This is a very fitting tribute to a woman whose life was dedicated to children and, with them and through them, to making an impact.
To date, Karens' Tots Fund has raised over $13,000 that has: gone towards the building of a much needed new dormitory for the abondoned and abused children who have found a home in Los Chavalitos, Nicaragua; helped keep the kinders (Centers for Intergral Child Development or CIDI's) open in Morazán, El Salvador; and supported youth literacy in Santa Marta, El Salvador.
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