Congratulations to our fabulous first team for finishing a tough week of work and play on Volunteer Nicaragua 2014. They flew out early this morning! Our second team from all over the country has just arrived at Managua Airport tonight to finish the projects this next week!
Count your many blessings! Building new latrines in Nicaragua is like digging your own grave. For 5 hours, our teams dug in the hardest clay possible at the local elementary school while some painted the inside and outside of the school in the hottest weather possible. Toilettes are a luxury here for school children!
The work continued today at the local orphanage playing with the children and painting the school nearby and the baseball dugouts. The heat and humidity is at an all time high! I suffered a heat stroke yesterday with all of the symptoms leaving me resting today to regain my strength! I was sad I had…
Volunteer Nicaragua 2014 has arrived from across the country after a series of delays, lightning storms and one person detained at passport control. Final time of arrival nearly 2:00am last night! We spent the day recovering, adjusting to the heat, visiting our projects and playing soccer America vs. Nicaragua!
Volunteer Nicaragua 2014 east coast group in Miami! We have 28 people this week joining us from across the country! We are off!
Prior to our Dominican Republic trip in June, we started to raise funds for this family who had a set up quadruplets. These tiny quadruplets were born on May 7 in the Dominican Republic. They are already home from the hospital and are still very tiny. One baby has a heart condition and isn’t expected…
We are Building a Library in El Estrecho, DR Color My World Foundation & Dominican Starfish Foundation are building a library in El Estrecho, Dominican Republic. The project plans are very clear. The land has been selected near the center of the community. The library will service two communities, De Luperon and Escalerta and surrounding…
Bedford youth visit Nicaragua to help the poor Brotherly love in abundance was extended by 13 local residents that visited Central America as a part of a 29-person group that recently undertook a goodwill tour to rural Nicaragua. Twelve were from Bedford. One was from Amherst. The tour, from Aug. 5-12, was presented by Color…
Bedford youth visit Nicaragua to help the poor Brotherly love in abundance was extended by 13 local residents that visited Central America as a part of a 29-person group that recently undertook a goodwill tour to rural Nicaragua. Twelve were from Bedford. One was from Amherst. The tour, from Aug. 5-12, was presented by Color…
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