Work Projects

The following emails came from the leaders of college service trips. If only they sent photos...

I brought a magnet on a service trip to Honduras with 13 Eckerd College students. The magnet was given to the guard at SOS orphanage. Our service work there included purchasing a new roof, cleaning, and painting the guard casseta at the entrance to the orphanage. The teachers in Honduras were on strike, so a majority of our time was spent with the 150 children age 4-18 who resided at SOS. We tried to provide some form of structured activity for the children by putting on plays and translating them from English to Spanish. After a week of hard work we hugged the children goodbye and left the magnet on the fridge of the casseta.

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I led a Service Trip, which included 12 students and myself, to La Romana, Dominican Repbulic where we worked at the "Hogar Del Nino" school (http://www.hogardelnino.com/).  I gave a magnet to Inexis Zapata who is the Volunteer Coordinator at the Hogar.  She helped me set up the entire trip and helped me find lodging, food, and transportation.  Without her I do not think our trip  would have happened.  I also gave a magnet to four girls (Sara Vicenzi, Diane Tobio, Jade Franco, Hilary Marck) who graduated from Stonehill College in MA and are spending a year volunteering at the Hogar.  They were our day to day contacts and they also showed us around La Romana when we were not volunteering.  It was nice having Americans around that were able to help us out as well as show us around.