Posted in Constanza2 - 6/12/2017 by Erl Reyes
Today was well needed, today was the day where we got a break and had a breather in the middle of the trip. First we woke up at 8:00 am which is very rare since we’ve been waking up at 6 or 7 for the past couple of days. Today was our first free day, which means...
Posted in Constanza2 - 6/12/2017 by Heather Thu and Emerson Ajiataz
¡Hola! Day 7 – Living Like a Local – C2A visited the Rio Grande community for LLAL day. When we arrived, we met the community leader, Mercedes, who showed us all the host families our group would be working with. Each host family, which were 8 families,...
Posted in Constanza2 - 6/12/2017 by Clinton Phan, Glimpser
Dear beautiful readers, Today was a great day to learn about a complicated issue we face everywhere in the world, and that is immigration. Throughout the day, we met different immigrants from two different countries: Venezuela and Haiti. They told us their stories and...
Posted in Constanza2 - 6/12/2017 by Mary Archibeque and Kristen Sun (Líderes del Día)
This is Mary Archibeque and today I was the Líder del Día along with Kristen Sun. Since the two themes of the day were Working Like a Local and Global Business, we visited two places: a farm that grows a variety of crops, and Natura Fields, a global agribusiness that...
Posted in Constanza2 - 6/12/2017 by Líderes del Día Alondra Arambula and Amner Guzman
Alondra: Hola familia y amigos!!! I am Alondra Arambula, El Líder del Día along with my fellow Glimpser Amner Guzman. Yesterday we learned about aid and development with Scott Coppa, while immersed in El Barrio de Las Flores. Similar to Aid and Development day,...
Posted in Constanza2 - 6/12/2017 by GGL Julian Hartmann-Russell
Today we studied the impacts that international aid and development NGO’s and nonprofits have when they work in “developing” countries such as the DR. We spent the morning preparing for and going to visit Las Flores, the local community that we will...
Posted in Constanza2 - 6/12/2017 by GGL Julian Hartmann-Russell
Our second day here in Constanza was jam-packed with learning activities, orientation and preparation for the next two weeks in the Dominican Republic, and the first encounter with our amazing Global Glimpse Host Youth Ambassadors! In the program seminars we discussed...
