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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

Ponce, PR – Weekly Report – Feb 3-7, 2020

Posted on February 11, 2020February 18, 2020 by Christle Gehman

Joining us this week was a lively group of eleven from the Holly Grove Mennonite Church in MD, including Pastor James Wengerd.  Very soon we discovered they enjoy being together Read More…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce, PR – Weekly Report – Jan 27-31, 2020

Posted on February 5, 2020February 18, 2020 by Christle Gehman

This week we welcomed Shane Martin’s team of six young men from Ontario, Canada as well as Deb and Conrad Brenneman from Goshen, IN.  They joined long term leaders, Tony Read More…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Ponce, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico – Weekly Report – Jan 20-24, 2020

Posted on January 28, 2020February 18, 2020 by Christle Gehman

After having last week’s volunteers cancelled due to the unsettled feelings around the recent earthquakes, it was especially good to have our six volunteers from PA arrive.  In addition to Read More…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Ponce, Puerto Rico, Utuado

Ponce, PR – Weekly Report – June 3-7, 2019

Posted on June 17, 2019February 18, 2020 by Christle Gehman

MDS was busy during the week of June 1 – 8 in Ponce.  There were a variety of people working. The one-week volunteers were all from Ohio: Bruce Kindy, Levi Read More…

Posted in Weekly ReportsTagged Hurricane Maria, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce, Puerto Rico, Weekly Report, Aug 27-31, 2018

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Christle Gehman

This week, Kenton Baer was joined by his father Jim Baer, both from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Since this was our last week, we were racing the clock to get as much Read More…

Posted in NewsTagged Hurricane Maria, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce, Puerto Rico, Weekly Report, Aug 19-25, 2018

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Christle Gehman

This week, we had four volunteers from Philadelphia: Nes Espinosa, Carlos Garcia Torres, Hector Marrero, and Vandy Parks. We laid the floor tile, wired up the house, and installed ceiling Read More…

Posted in NewsTagged Hurricane Maria, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce, Puerto Rico, Weekly Report, Aug 12-18, 2018

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Christle Gehman

This week we had one volunteer arrive — Sean Kiely from Yorktown Heights, New York – and one leave: our older son Jonathan returned home to Virginia on Monday to Read More…

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