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…
One month and three days after my arrival we just drove down from Las Minitas with the masons, who have spent three weeks there. Today they put the final exterior cement on the school and yesterday the roof. We are fast moving! Someone from the co…
I've started to take one long video of the commute to and from Las Minitas where we are buildig the school. The strangers who stand on the side of the road and we pick up. The farmers. The cows trotting down the road. The mountain. The giant pil…
First day of work: Meet Gustavo, the community leader, and the other guys who are helping to build the preschool through our Friends Project ... we are building the first preschool in Las Minitas, brick by brick! www.thefriendsproject.org See the…
By the end of the second day of hauling bricks from pile to preschool, soaking them in a barrel, pulling them out by nearly tipping myself into the deep plastic barrel, and then either handing them to the masons or laying them soaking wet around th…
This is day two of construction of the preschool up in Las Minitas. Sergio, our mason, laid the foundation ropes (if that's what they are called) and the guide ropes for the footprint. Guys from the community dug the trenches and foundation ho…
It’s our third day of work at the preschool in Las Minitas, where Sergio, our mason, is on his way up to begin work after Gustavo and other men (and some kids) from the community have dug a trench around the footprint and also the deep foundation h…
Don Mauricio is the Clint Eastwood of Nicaragua. He’s 80 something years old and every night walks up to the summit to sleep at the Ranchon, to keep his eye on the lone solar panel that the tourism and coffee cooperative has up there. Every time I s…
Our gravel started its life today halfway up to Las Minitas, filling the truck to the brim. Popped a tire from a rock somehwere between Buena Vista and Las Minitas, and that plan was kaputt. Franklin, Juan and the others had to drive it back down…
