Corner of Love medications stolen in South Florida

Tanya Mroczek-Amador and her husband, Nelson Amador, founders and directors of the Corner of Love mission in Maple Valley, had more than $6,000 of medications and about $1,350 of personal items stolen from their car in a parking lot at a South Florida hotel.

The Amadors were taking the medication to Nicaragua to serve the remote villages. Since 2000 the Amadors have been organizing numerous annual missions to Nicaragua providing medical and dental care and many other services working through the Corner of Love Christian missionary organization.

The Amadors were checking into Kendall Comfort Suites hotel in South Florida when a burglar busted out the window of their rental car and made off with the medications and personal items the couple were taking to Nicaragua.

Tanya Amador wrote in a Facebook message the crime occurred in less than eight minutes after they arrive at the hotel and were checking in to get the room key. The car was locked and parked in front of the lobby.

“We traveled from Nicaragua to Fort Meyers on Feb. 23, picking up 70 percent of these items from the family we stayed with; we ordered them online and shipped them to their house, and the rest of the items we picked up in South Florida on Feb. 26, right before arriving at the hotel,” she wrote.

The Corner of Love is taking donations to help offset the cost of replacing the medications, which the Amadors will pay for themselves.

Despite the bad experience in South Florida, the couple did not miss a step on their mission. By the next day after the theft, the Amadors were on their way to Nicaragua, short the medications for the mobile medical/dental clinics the Corner of Love mission uses to treat Nicaraguan residents, many of whom are poor and in remote areas.

Tuesday afternoon Tanya Amador said through a Facebook chat the mission was drilling a well near the Corner of Love headquarters at Quinta El Misionero that will, “supply San Ramon’s only two fire hydrants for the whole town plus public water fountains on Main Street. Aside from that, it will provide water for our cabins which are being built to house doctors who will serve with us for four to six months or more. It is the third well we have drilled in San Ramon city limits. Apart from these large-scale efforts, we have also funded smaller water projects in almost 60 villages since 2009.”

The Corner of Love may have started modestly 15 years ago in Maple Valley, but it has grown into an international mission.

“Since Jan. 1, we have hosted five teams from the U.S., one from Bermuda and two national Nicaraguan groups,” Tanya Amador wrote. “Next week we have a team from Japan, followed by one from Ohio. All these teams have helped us carry out mobile medical clinics with two also offering dental services.”

Corner of Love donations

To help replace the stolen medications, donations can be made online at www.corneroflove.org or a check may be mailed to Corner of Love 22142 SE 237th St #100 Maple Valley, WA 98038.

What was taken:

• 43 jars of children’s vitamins, 500 each;

• Antiparasite medications for 9,200 people, 500 milligrams Mebendazole;

• 30 hydrocortisone and antifungals;

• One custom order of antifungals medications and 13 kinds of antibiotics;

• Lidocaine, seven boxes;

• Bupivacaine, two boxes;

• Five boxes of sheath protectors;

• 39 lice treatments;

• Three 500 tab bottles of Benadryl;

• 12 bottles of Naproxen, quantity of pills per bottle unknown;

• 22 boxes of fluoride varnish;