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Couple delivers Christmas toys to kids in Guatemala
For the past 10 years, Deacon Freddie Palacios and his wife, Zoila, have been putting smiles on the faces of poor children living in their native Guatemala by delivering wrapped toys for Christmas.
Deacon Freddie Palacios packs donated toys for shipment to Guatemala on Nov. 11. For the past 10 years, Palacios and his wife have been collecting toys and distributing them to needy children for Christmas in the couple’s native Guatemala. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
Deacon Freddie Palacios and his wife Zoila pack up donated toys for shipment to Guatemala on Nov. 11. For the past 10 years, the Melrose Park couple and their family have been collecting toys and distributing to poor children in their native Guatemala for Christmas. Palacios, who is a deacon at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Melrose Park, has also started trade schools for at-risk teens in Guatemala, El Salvador and Argentina. Above, Palacios poses with two children in Guatemala who received toys. (Karen Callaway/Chicago Catholic)
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