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1995

  • Meggan Parkinson spends a semester in Guatemala City. She teams up with Jaime Marcía, a political refugee from El Salvador, to do street theater with the homeless street children. The children tell them they would like to have a safe place to be during the day. Meggan and Jaime get several musicians to donate songs for a tape that is then sold to get money for renting a location for that purpose. Laura Romero from Spain plans to come to Los Romerítos after her time in Kenya.


1996

  • December - The tape* is made available for sale and Los Romerítos rents a place to have their center.
* (Note: In 2006, one of the tapes was found and a CD was professionally mastered from it. If you are interested in purchasing the CD, please contact us, the price is $8.00 USD plus $2.00 USD shipping in the US only.)


1997

  • May - Meggan Parkinson is killed in an auto accident in California, USA.
  • June - Laura Romero is killed in an auto accident in Spain.
  • December - Los Romerítos formally becomes the “Asociación para los derechos de la niñez Los Romeritos”, ("Association  for Children's Rights Los Romeritos") in Guatemala.


1998

  • August - The Oregon City United Methodist Church sends its first mission to Los Romerítos. The team consisted of 6 adults and 4 teenagers. When they got there on Monday, they found that there had been a crisis, the children had been abducted from their homes late Friday. Read the full report about the efforts to recover the children.


2001

  • Laura Romero's family influence Queen Sofia of Spain, head of Spain's Red Cross and the Spanish Red Cross, to donate a building for Los Romerítos.


2003

  • March - Amigos de Los Romerítos founded. Their purpose is to develop a means of stable funding for the Los Romerítos project through the selling of handmade items primarily from the Ruth and Nohemi coop and others.


2005

  • Report from Los Romerítos stated that they gave care to 45 children.


2006

  • February - Mac McKinlay and Marilee Dea visit Los Romerítos. Marilee holds a clinic for the children.
  • November - JoAn Dwyer and Jaime Marcía join together to create a program called "Children's Cultural Exchange". Five boys from Guatemala City came to San Juan de Laguna for 3 days and spend time with 5 boys from this area, then all 10 children went to Guatemala City.


2007

  • January - Marilee Dea leads another medical team to Los Romerítos, there they saw a total of 56 patients. There was also a clinic at Amatitlán with a total of 32 patients.
  • September - In a message from Elisa:
"I want to tell you that we have had two incidents this month that have not been favorable for the project. Well, on August 15 the robbers got in to rob Los Romeritos, and returned to rob on September 17. We are upset because they carried off: Children’s games, Educational materials, the kids backpacks, gas drums, medicines, broke glasses, children’s chairs, tools and that which hurts us the most, the musical instruments of the kids. It’s deplorable but certain that in Guatemala there is a lot of delinquincy, and one more time it makes us (the children) a little sad. The two actions happened in the early morning, the police arrived and left everything open, and when we arrived in the morning the police were patrolling because of what had happened, and also in the second robbery they left some papers burned. This event gives us a lot of pain, but we will continue ahead on behalf of the young people."