became a group foster care parent at the children’s home. Now he carries on the institution’s half-century legacy of caring as activities director. Recently, he helped recruit foster care families near Harlingen. “I’ve had so many different types of people take care of me and I’ve taken


care of so many different kinds of people,” he said. “It’s a refuge for a child. Once a child comes in the gate and ends up in one of these homes – in the community or here on campus – there’s going to be someone who cares for a child and wants what’s best for that child.”


Home: Past and present Rogelio Salazar (green shirt, page 10 recruiting a foster family) who lived at the Buckner Rio Grande Children’s Home for 10 years, is now the activities director there. He fondly recalls going to church (top, page 11), living and making friends on the campus with his siblings (right, below).


–John Hall


WINTER 2015 ISSUE • Buckner Today 11


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