Aaron and I went with 16 others from our church to Jinotega, Nicaragua last week. It was an amazing trip, and I'd love to go again someday! The first day we stayed at Mision Para Cristo with a few others from our group to put bags together for Casa Materna (where pregnant women live until their babies are born). Aaron and Bill played soccer with some kids in the garage area. FYI...the lady who works with Casa Materna is always in need of cloth diapers, baby socks, onesies, blankets, and especially fabric. They cut material into 6x6 squares and bundle 36 squares together. Then the mothers make their own blankets, so if you have any material (baby fabric would be great), I'll be collecting supplies to send before the end of the year.
The next day I got to help the doctor who came with us at a mobile medical clinic. Here's the line waiting to see him. I was in the building you see at the back, which was our "pharmacy" for the day. I handed out a lot of vitamins and tylenol, and most of the patients were kids.
Aaron stopped by after they finished building a house.
On Wednesday and Thursday I got to go to two different schools. Aaron and I both went with the mobile library. What a fun day! This school had 22 students that day. We sang songs, and Aaron read the story of David and Goliath...in Spanish!
We also brought face paint, which was a hit!
The brave little boy who was the first to let me paint a cat face :)
Reading Dora (they read more to me than I read to them). The mobile library is also going to start letting the kids "check out" a book to take home, so they'll be needing a lot more children's books. I'll be collectiong them to send next summer, so if you're at Half Price Books, don't forget to look in the Spanish section!
Nicaragua has the best coffee!
There were 10 of us from our group who decided to HIKE a mountain on Friday morning. I'm getting too old for this kind of thing!
That afternoon we spent an hour or two with probably 100 children. We had our own little field day with races. We were team rojo!
We randomly saw a baby with a Kimley-Horn shirt on, where Aaron works.
The Grapevine Church of Christ group.
We got to be tourists on Saturday and started off by seeing a volcano.
Then we went ziplining. Aaron had already been twice, but I'm glad I did it!
It was a lot of fun :)
Flying home!
3 comments:
What an awesome experience! I may just need to go with you next time:)
What a neat opportunity!! I know you were a blessing to those sweet kids!
This is amazing! I'm so glad that you got to do this! I probably have some fabric I can give you at Dianas...but I won't be home until mid November. Will that be too late?
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