New Kensington native gives up life in U.S. to help Guatemalan orphans
Brian C. Rittmeyer | Tribune-Review
New Kensington native Stan Nelson while visiting relatives in Harrison in September 2020. Nelson, a 1983 graduate of Valley High School, moved from his home in the Kansas City area to Guatemala in 2016, where two years later he started a home, Rocsana’s Hope, to help girls aging out of the Central American nation’s orphanages.
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Stan Nelson with Karilyn Caal (left), Darling Hernandez (right) and Gloria Cuc Ico (front) at Rocsana’s Hope in Guatemala. The girls plan to open a bakery together.
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Stan Nelson with Rebeca Noemi Us Murcia, the newest resident at Rocsana’s Hope, a home Nelson, a native of New Kensington, opened in Guatemala in 2019 to help girls aging out of orphanages in the Central American country.
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Stan and Denise Nelson (front, center) with the staff and residents of Rocsana’s Hope at Christmas 2019 in Guatemala.
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Rocsana de Chen with her husband, Alberto Chen Lopez, and their son, Andy Jonathan David Chen Giron, at Christmas 2019. New Kensington native Stan Nelson met Rocsana at an orphanage on a mission trip to Guatemala in 2014, and five years later opened Rocsana’s Hope, named for her, to help young women like her as they age out of orphanages in the Central American nation.
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A view of Rocasana’s Hope, a home New Kensington native Stan Nelson founded in Guatemala to help girls aging out of orphanages in the Central American nation.
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A view of Rocasana’s Hope, a home New Kensington native Stan Nelson founded in Guatemala to help girls aging out of orphanages in the Central American nation.
