It has been an eventful day. We worked to get rooms ready for school to start on Monday. We cleaned trash, moved benches, hauled concrete bags and helped weld the windows and doors. We are lucky to have a group with various mechanical skills. I am not referring to myself :).
A few of us have learned patience. Trash is a big problem here. It gets burned or thrown in the river. While cleaning it up today, I struggled with why some problems can't be more easily solved. Mike and Brenda are patient with all our questions and help us understand the culture. We met a man that is starting a recycling center. This is great news to us!
We met other people today volunteering in Haiti. There are over 15,000 NGO's in this country. So many agencies trying to rebuild. We met a group building rubble houses. Really incredible process. Pictures are attached. We got multiple tours of houses in different stages. Along the way, we met a group of kids that yelled "Photo photo!" We quickly picked up the kids and they warmed up to big blanco John.
Please keep Jenny in your prayers. She hit her head when we were driving through town. She is the resident nurse for CBF. She is fine after some stitches at the local Cuban hospital.
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