The Barco family has been blessed with many special employees. Connie Ojeda is a very special one. Always smiling and helpful with everyone. She not only excels in her work, but she is a joy to work with. Her beautiful smile is contagious. In September, she will be celebrating 50 years at Barco. Susan Hayes […]

A special thanks to each of you for the many hours of your time that you have given to make our second Walk for Kids so successful.  You are deeply appreciated.  Thank you very much. Michael

It is with a great sense of appreciation that we salute and say thanks to our great friends at Imar.  Imar has been our most supportive contributor in each of the last 2 years.  We are forever grateful for your generosity and support.  A special personal thanks goes out to Chris Kim. Michael

We want to salute the greatness of nurses as we celebrate nurses week and the birthday of Florence Nightingale.  The photo above was taken in Peru while I joined a medical trip with the staff from Resurge International.  The nurses in this photo are remarkable and showed me what the heart of a volunteer nurses looks and […]

The sign says it all.  We can all carry the sign “I am hope”.  Everyday there is hope in our lives.  We just need to choose Hope.  Our Walk for Kids was a huge success.  We had over 400 walkers, each with much hope for the future of all those children in need of a […]

On April 1,2012 approximately 454 Walkers joined us in our second walk.  We were fortunate to walk side by side with the RMHC Walk for Kids. Our community of compassion grew to 454 with the help of our outside guests. They were suppliers, customers and service companies who work with our company and they helped to bring the […]

I recently received a letter from one of our partners in our community of compassion which I would like to share. Because of many of your donations and generosity, we have been able to give this gift of smiles to many of these children from ReSurge. “It is my distinct pleasure to provide you with […]

I want to take a moment to thank Rosemary for the time and effort she is giving to Barco’s Nightingales. We are working together on a project which we hope will help improve and elevate the image of nurses to the general public as well as to themselves. Her effort and energy has been great. […]

We are very proud that Barco’s Nightingales has now been able to help Agnes who lives in Kenya. Agnes was in the recent movie, “The First Grader”.  This great movie was recently nominated for a best picture award. Agnes was one of the children who played a special role in this movie. We are pleased […]

There were 20 of us that made the trip to Haiti the week of February 6-13. This team included 2 medical doctors, 2 dentists and 2 nurses.  The trip from my home in Mississippi to where we are staying on the Haiti border takes 16 hours which includes an 8 hour bus ride after we […]