Tuesday---the work begins

To begin our work, we split into four teams. 

One team went to reroof the roof of Dona Olga. In past years, we helped dig a drainage ditch so that every time it rained, the water went around the house instead of through the house.

Ben on the roof

Ben, Alex, Paul and Kathryn taking a break

Alex and Fr Rich on the roof

Ben and Fr Rich

Matt and Paul

The second team did cement work. The Friars are helping a young man paralyzed and in a wheel chair, build a house. Our team is mixing and laying the concrete (no cements trucks in Honduras). This is all done by hand.

John, Meghan and
Franklin shoveling

Meghan, Chris, Deacon Mike, John

Meghan taking a break with a neighbor child

The third team went to La Granja which is a boys’ orphanage that we have done a lot of work in the past for. The team was digging holes (in rocky soil) so that they could plant trees. Photos to come in a future post

The fourth team stayed at Casa Guadalupe where they have a lunch program called Cenacolo, for children ages 5-12. It is only for the children who are very poor. The school children go to school either from 7-12 noon or noon to 5:00 pm so there are two lunch times provided. The reason for the program and how it is run is to help the children learn to serve rather than learning a sort of helplessness. It is a Montessori-based program where the children do everything. Two children serve the food to each of the children at the table, one is responsible for cleaning the table after eating and one sweeps the floor around the table. Each child washes his or her own dishes after eating. One child from the whole group is the prayer leader. It’s an amazing program.

The Prayer leader

Bringing food out from the kirchen

Serving the others at the table

Susan being served

Brother Gabriel getting his lunch

Mary

Fr Paschal talking to one of the boys

Thank you again for all of your generosity. These are our brothers and sisters in Christ.