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Tag: Hurricane Maria

Ponce, Puerto Rico – Weekly Report – Mar 2-6, 2020

Posted on April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 by Christle Gehman

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…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Hurricane Maria, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce, Puerto Rico – Weekly Report – Feb 24-28, 2020

Posted on March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 by Christle Gehman

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…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Hurricane Maria, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce, Puerto Rico – Weekly Report – Feb 10-14, 2020

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Christle Gehman

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…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Hurricane Maria, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Utuado, PR – Weekly Report – Nov 25-29, 2019

Posted on December 3, 2019February 18, 2020 by Christle Gehman

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…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, Utuado

Utuado, PR – Weekly Report – Nov 18-22, 2019

Posted on December 3, 2019February 18, 2020 by Christle Gehman

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…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, Utuado

Utuado, PR – Weekly Report – Nov 11-15, 2019

Posted on November 19, 2019February 18, 2020 by Christle Gehman

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…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, Utuado

Utuado, PR – Weekly Report – Nov 4-8, 2019

Posted on November 12, 2019February 18, 2020 by Christle Gehman

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…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, Utuado

Aibonito, PR – Weekly Report – June 24-28, 2019

Posted on July 2, 2019February 18, 2020 by Christle Gehman

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…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Aibonito, Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico

Aibonito, PR – Weekly Report – June 17-21, 2019

Posted on June 25, 2019February 18, 2020 by Christle Gehman

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…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Aibonito, Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico

Aibonito, PR – Weekly Report – June 10-14, 2019

Posted on June 18, 2019February 18, 2020 by Christle Gehman

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…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Aibonito, Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico

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