Last Friday we had a community clean up, which is the first activity that has been put on by the 'gran comision', let by Jose Quezada. Starting around 8 a.m., Jose and different community members, mostly kids, started picking up trash. By the time I got there with some students that were working with us, around 9:30 a.m., they had already used up all the garbage bags they had. We ended up hauling two dump trucks full of trash out.
Our next challenge will be to educate people about how to better dispose of their trash. People mostly burn their trash, but that leaves all the non-burnable things along the roads (glass bottles, soles from shoes, tin cans).
The picture above shows one of the students that was working with us, myself, and Franddi picking up trash.
3 comments:
hi!
how are you? my entire back is peeling from sunburn, and i just got back from a weird semana santa trip to the beach.
i was just thinking today that it's been a whole year since i last saw you and everyone in jarabacoa/los higos.
who is eugenio? is he from los higos? or from outside? how are the lorena stoves working? i never sent your christmas card (and andre's card and cecilia's card). it's still here. :S
i want to come this summer... you will be there right? it is still just forming in my mind right now though, so i haven't thought about how long or anything. i think i might give mery a call tonight.
i hope you are doing well! and that you have a lovely easter
I'll be in Los Higos in the summer. I will be super busy with teams, though. Eugenio is from Hato Viejo.
Hi! Just wanted to say I've been thinking of you a lot lately. Love you!
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