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Opus Prize - Sister Valeriana | University of St. Thomas Sister Valeriana Isabel García-Martín of Bogotá, Colombia, is founder and director of the Asociación Hogares Luz y Vida, which cares for 140 physically and mentally disabled children and educates or provides day care services for 860 children from the community. García-Martín, 68, a native of Spain, was working as a Sister of Filipense at the National Institute for Blind Children in Bogotá in 1991, when she left to open a home for four abandoned handicapped infants. "I said, 'Lord, here I am. Thank you for choosing me. You know the fear I have. You are going to be in charge of feeding the children. I will work on the other things.' He has accomplished that, because I have never lacked food for the children." She established Hogares Luz y Vida Homes of Light and Life which today has eight locations in the Bogotá area and includes an elementary school and day care centers that integrate children with and without disabilities. García-Martín chose the name because even blind children need light and life, and they receive those through unconditional love. "The life I wish for these children is one of quality, because they deserve that, " she says. "All we do is with quality, with love. If we are able to come near and give them a hug, then we must do it with love. If we are going to give them food, we give it with love. If we are going to clean their little faces, we do it with love." Opus Prize - Sister Valeriana | University of St. Thomas

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