Dominican Republic - Day 2

Our first full day was spent touring the community.  It was amazing to see what all had changed since last year when we were there.  This is the view from the house we stayed in with the ocean in the background.

Case had to get in some pool time before heading to the community.

This building was just being started last year when we arrived.  We did not help with construction but we did see walls going in a year ago.  So great to see the final product and be able to tour it.  The downstairs of the building is a medical office where a doctor comes to the community 2x a week to see patients.  The upstairs is partly used by women learning to sew to make an income and the other half is lived in by Sandra (the woman that we work with while there).

The medical office.

Women learning to sew from one instructor.

Siahna likes music and came across a tamborine.

This gym was in construction a year ago and was finished this year.  This is the top of the second school.

A street outside the church.

This house was our construction project.  Our job was to add the floor of the second story.  The home will eventually be used to train first time moms how to be a mom and the second story will house single moms and their children who have nowhere else to live.

This is our team from Denver.

This used to be the very first, only school building in this community.  It is now abandoned.

This is the gym/store for the Americans to shop in.

This is our translator and Case's good friend, Tony.

A classroom in the new school building.  Their class sizes are the same as ours (around 25) and you can see there is not a lot of space to house 25 kids.

Another classroom.

The library.

And, of course, fresh bananas straight from being cut off the tree!