Category: El Salvador
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Hump day
Today is Wednesday and the two days of heavy work so far was just to get us ready for what would be in store for us today. Now that the re-bar has been installed, the plan for today is to complete the foundation by filling in the trenches to grade with concrete. We get to…
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The Big Dig
It’s the second day, and the enthusiasm with which we greet the day is tempered only slightly with some aches and pains. The heat of the day is hard at our heels as we arrive at the job site but it doesn’t deter us from getting right at it. The men resume digging the latrine…
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Haz algo concreto
Day 1 The title of this post is the slogan for Habitat for Humanity in El Salvador. It means “Do something concrete”. It’s Monday and we volunteers arrive at the work site ready to do just that. Unlike other builds I’ve been on, the entire team’s efforts will be devoted to working on one house…
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Welcome to the land of the Saviour
As the plane makes its descent the high cumulus clouds give way to a lush green landscape below. Farmland, interspersed with hilly forest and several large rather menacing volcanoes, stops abruptly as the plane circles over the shimmering Pacific coastline to make the final approach into San Salvador, the capital and largest city. I read…
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