Monday, April 19, 2010
First Work Day
We gathered early in the hotel as Dave led devotions before a nice breakfast with locally fresh papaya, then our driver showed up and we were off to the village of Delicias for our first full day of work. No one told us that we were going to hike up to the top of a ridge! As we were going up we passed horses carrying bags of cement for our projects. We started off working together on a family latrine but soon divided into teams for stoves, water tanks and latrines. We worked side by side and in the homes of recipient families through the day.
Yes it was hot. Very hot, and we went through the water that we carried with us before we took a lunch break. We had a nice lunch of chicken and rice in the village at the bottom of the ridge so we had the opportunity to walk back up the hill after lunch.
At the end of the day we had helped complete one latrine, one water tank and one very efficient wood stove.
We definitely learned lots of new ingenious building techniques from our local supervisors.....ask us later!
We are working hard, staying healthy and having fun (and we do appreciate the prayers). dp
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