Some Work and Tons of Play

Today, we got to experience the true lives of some community members that live in Dios Dira.  Our day started with a bucket shower and manually flushing our own toilets. Additionally, the power and water were turned off for most of the day to get the real life...

A Day Down By The Dumps

Today was a completely eye-opening day, moreso than any of the other days that we’ve encountered so far. We got to see with our own eyes what true poverty was by going to the dump, which was about 5 miles away from San Cristobal. Now, you might notice that there...

Immigration Day

After a relaxing and refreshing free day on Thursday, we were ready for another packed day. We ventured to a neighborhood in West Santo Domingo that houses many Haitians and Dominicans, most of them children of former immigrants from Haiti that came to the Dominican...

Glimpsers’ Day Off!

My name is Vincent and today I had my opportunity to serve as Líder Del Día! Today was our first Free Day and we got to have a luxurious wake up time of 8 am, which was well needed, and had a delicious breakfast to start off the day energized. After breakfast, we all...

Work and Learn

Hello everyone, I’m Jynessa and I got to lead Global Business/Working Like a Local day. We started off the day earlier than usual and took a long windy drive to ASOCAES which is a local coffee association in Los Cacaos. We were taken behind the scenes of coffee...