Since we have returned, every day is filled with thoughts of Altagracia, the children, the poverty, their happy faces. I feel a need to express what we have done there by posting one more time some of our moments there. Bill did a fabulous job posting the detailed building of the latrines, so I would like to share moments of teaching and people of Altagracia for you.
The first day we met approximately 60 children to teach. We met in the feeding area before the children ate their one big meal of the day. Children of the Nation provides a meal for the children four days a week. They receive a dish of rice, lentils, beans, and sometimes filled with small pasta. Each child then receives a daily vitamin.
The children line up to wash their hands with two buckets, a bar of soap and towel. An older students assists by pouring water on the child's hand before using the soap and then pours water over to rinse into the second bucket. There is no sink in the feeding area. The water that is piped in has been tested and is reported to have E coli. More pictures to come.
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