Bringing in the peaceable kingdom
San Jose del Cayo and Seis de Mayo
Today was a very good day, but a very hard day. Both teams, the medical team and the construction team had our longest days, not returning until almost 6:00 pm.
The medical team had already run out of some of our key meds the day before, as we're seeing far more people than we had planned on seeing each day. But, Thursday was no exception either, and the team with the Proyecto MAMA staff were able to see all of the people, but a few MAMA staff will have to return back to the colony next week to give the deworming tablets. The med team told many stories in our evening sharing time about patients they met and problems they are facing - bringing to our team the hard realities of the poverty of this country.
The construction team went out to Seis de Mayo where we worked at the Proyecto MAMA site where they have a tutoring school - helping children after school with their homework, teaching them how to use computers,etc. We have several projects to complete here - pour a walk way with wheel chair access from the road into the entrance of the school; raise an entrance door about one concrete block; pour concrete caps on walls in front of the school, tyingin the wall with the fencing on top; pouring 5 more columns out front of the school - part of the front wall; and pouring another walkway and pad from the school to the washing area and bathrooms at the side of the building. This is a 2 day project, and we'll have to really hustle to get it finished. We had Matt with us today, as well as Pastor Juan and one of his community members - "Rico" (Ricoberto). So, by the end of the first day, we had all of the sidewalk poured and Dave was still doing the final finish at 5:30 or so.
But, at the end of the day, looking back on it - we had a really super day with everyone chipping in wherever they were needed. And yes, we're still making volcanoes here.
The team for the most part has been very healthy, with only an occasional need for a Cipro - for "just in case....."
Thanks to all for your prayers and concerns - we have all been greatly blessed by our friends here and our experiences. We hope and pray that the work being done here will help people to know each other better and to be able to live peacefully with each other.
Thanks to God,
DRE Proyecto MAMA team -Bob
Today was a very good day, but a very hard day. Both teams, the medical team and the construction team had our longest days, not returning until almost 6:00 pm.
The medical team had already run out of some of our key meds the day before, as we're seeing far more people than we had planned on seeing each day. But, Thursday was no exception either, and the team with the Proyecto MAMA staff were able to see all of the people, but a few MAMA staff will have to return back to the colony next week to give the deworming tablets. The med team told many stories in our evening sharing time about patients they met and problems they are facing - bringing to our team the hard realities of the poverty of this country.
The construction team went out to Seis de Mayo where we worked at the Proyecto MAMA site where they have a tutoring school - helping children after school with their homework, teaching them how to use computers,etc. We have several projects to complete here - pour a walk way with wheel chair access from the road into the entrance of the school; raise an entrance door about one concrete block; pour concrete caps on walls in front of the school, tyingin the wall with the fencing on top; pouring 5 more columns out front of the school - part of the front wall; and pouring another walkway and pad from the school to the washing area and bathrooms at the side of the building. This is a 2 day project, and we'll have to really hustle to get it finished. We had Matt with us today, as well as Pastor Juan and one of his community members - "Rico" (Ricoberto). So, by the end of the first day, we had all of the sidewalk poured and Dave was still doing the final finish at 5:30 or so.
But, at the end of the day, looking back on it - we had a really super day with everyone chipping in wherever they were needed. And yes, we're still making volcanoes here.
The team for the most part has been very healthy, with only an occasional need for a Cipro - for "just in case....."
Thanks to all for your prayers and concerns - we have all been greatly blessed by our friends here and our experiences. We hope and pray that the work being done here will help people to know each other better and to be able to live peacefully with each other.
Thanks to God,
DRE Proyecto MAMA team -Bob
posted by DRE MAMA Project at
3/19/2010 10:30:00 PM
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