Pictures from Saturday

A Whirlwind of a Week So Far!

What an incredible trip it has been so far! I'm sitting in the outdoor lobby of our hotel this morning, processing all of the things the group has said over the past few evenings in our debriefing sessions. We haven't had a lot of time for blogging because our evening meetings have gone long due to very good discussion! As I sit here, I am trying to process all of the things the team shared as well as my own emotions from this trip. As team leader, my first responsibility is to for the safety of the team and the administrative tasks of the trip. But every trip I go on brings new waves of emotion as I interact with the people we come to serve. This team has been incredible as well. Our evening debrief sessions have been full of raw, honest thoughts and reactions, both joys and sorrows, as we work with the same group of adults and children each day and go into their homes to install water filters. Today is our last day on the project and our last...

Monday

Our first day teaching the Health and Hygiene curriculum was a great success for the whole team! The Rusert family started off the morning leading the adults (mostly women since the men were working) in a community mapping exercise. The point of this lesson was to split them up into small groups and have them show and tell us about what their local neighborhood is like. They did this by drawing a map and also listing things they loved about their community and what they saw as their biggest needs. Here is a look at the finished drawings: Then they talked about diarrhea, what it is, what causes it and how you can treat it. Tomorrow, we will be talking about rehydration as a follow-up to this discussion. After the adult lesson, Josh R, Sammy, Keith and Carolyn went out with 2 translators and some church workers to install water filters in 10 homes. The experience of being invited into their homes is both extremely humbling and inspiring...

Nicaragua Team 1714

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