This week was a smaller group of volunteers – hard workers and good skills. Monday and Tuesday more cement blocks were laid at Ulyses site. Wednesday and Thursday all traveled Read More…
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The new group of weekly volunteers arrived on Saturday night and took care of themselves by staying at the MDS sleeping trailer, which has four bunk beds. We all arrived Read More…
The willing workers this week came from Lancaster County, PA (8), Ontario (3) and Manitoba (1). Each day the tasks were varied and diverse, which kept things quite fun. On Read More…
Our volunteers this week are Dave & Marty Charles from Lancaster, PA and Kyle Horst continues from last week. This is Dave & Marty’s first time serving with MDS. Dave Read More…
Our weekly volunteers arrived late Saturday evening from meeting up in San Juan. Kyle Horst is from Clifton, Virginia and Tim Braun from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Tim came as part of Read More…
We (the Sawatzkys) delivered and picked up our last and this week’s volunteers at the airport on Saturday. John and Linda did a little shopping at Walmart to pick up Read More…
The start up of work in Utuado began again in November. John and Linda Sawatzky arrived on October 29th in Utuado to meet with UMCOR/ReHace rep Edgar Quinones to learn Read More…
Work continued on Monday and Tuesday this week on Popo Alicea’s house. Popo has both legs amputated above the knee. His house is in desperate need of paint. Before painting, Read More…
This week we were blessed with a group of five volunteers from Normal, Illinois: Chris & Cory Culbertson, their son Matt Culbertson, along with Jonah King and Evan King, friends Read More…
Three of the five one-year volunteers who were with us last week stayed in Aibonito for a second week: Jesse Yoder, Noah Schulz, and Marco Tissen. Joining them for the Read More…