found project
reverently returning what remains
To be found isn’t just to be recovered.
It is to be anchored.
To be given ground again.
To be brought back into meaning.
In the Hill Country, we have lost lives.
Children. Mothers. Fathers. Daughters .
There are things the water carried away that will never return in the shape they once held.
But some things are still being found.
Jewelry in the mud.
Photos under rocks.
The edges of blankets.
A baby’s shoe.
And somehow, in this aching work of searching, we are being found too.
Found in our strength.
Found in our reverence.
Found in the way we say their names with clean hands and open hearts.
This isn’t just cleanup.
This is remembering.
This is belonging.
This is holy ground work.
To the families who lost, to the ones still waiting—
we carry your grief with the weight it deserves.
And we will keep going until every item, every name, every soul that wants to be found, is.
-dondi persyn
FOUNDER
FOUND ON THE GUADALUPE RIVER PROJECT
a heart- led community driven private initiative
WE ONLY ASK FOR WHAT WE NEED
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FOUND ON THE GUADALUPE RIVER PROJECT IS A PRIVATELY LED, HEART FOCUSED INITIATIVE
STEWARDED BY DONDI PERSYN AND COMMUNITY COLLABORATORS
SUPPORT
highlights
OUR heartfelt gratitude to benefactors
Cord and Annie shiftlet
clint & roxie orms
mission haus foundation
anne brunet
Lauren Stack
MISSY NICHOLS
walter mann
erin slade
melodee slade
katharine boyette
angela kennedy
barbara oates
martin ramirez
teri hauer
amanda & addison palluch
Mark and Darcy Mosier
kerry ann moore
tamara adira
alex herndon
crystal & blake goodman
Matt & Michelle Hall
audrey & isabela zuber
marylee evans williams
jason lynch
paula cole
The may family
Nancy freedle
brooke de winne
tracy smith
thank you for your grace as we update this growing list of benefactors!