This was “The Beast” that brought a whiteboard that will stretch across an entire wall in the school, along with books, educational games, and other school supplies. Why? Because, despite the torrential downpour last night, despite the roads bein…
10 a.m. Friday. Go time. Heading up to Las Minitas in the pick-up with a bookcase, $150 in books and games and other learning creativity things, and we expect about 60 members of the community to meet us there after we've stealthily arranged th…
Nicholas is a walking movie poster. I took this while he was watching his wife teach students how to make tortillas on a tour for the eco-tourism cooperative in Las Minitas.…
These kiddos get to walk into their own preschool, with a bookshelf and books and laminated learning maps and games and supplies for crafts for their imaginations this Friday! Someone from the community in Las Minitas is building 2 doors by hand:…
A few weeks ago, I learned how to make tortillas in Alcides' house. Or, rather, his wife tried to teach me. Mine was still burnt on one side and an off-kilter circle. They gave it to me to eat with a hard-boiled egg (a first here) and an enchi…
Sitting on the side of a mountain eating the thready stalk of the inside of a palm tree, sweating my face off, I wiped the sweat out of my eye, stuck the palmito in my mouth, savored it and then thought, who thinks to open the inside of a palm tree…
The school is painted! Spent all day Thursday painting the preschool with Sergio, Pedro and two helpers, and left with the blue bottom coat just starting to coat cement. Go us. Go The Friends Project! [www.thefriendsproject.org] Joselito is in th…
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. — Ferris Bueller Time is moving so fast. Cant' believe it's been like 6 weeks. In another month, I'll have a new life somewhere in South…
People are out there making a difference everyday. We just don't hear about them. One important thing we're doing here is meeting them and sharing their stories of how their beliefs, their words and their actions impact their families, the…
