Six young men from Ontario joined a couple from Alberta and a man from North Carolina and successfully completed our two final projects by Thursday afternoon. Even the tropical depression that settled in on Tuesday night could not stop the...
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Weather related flight problems caused our group of five from upstate New York to arrive at midnight on Tuesday instead of Sunday afternoon. Even with the shorter week with a full contingent of volunteers, the house and porch roof were completed at...
Volunteers this week focused on one home. They came from Canada, Iowa and Pennsylvania. As is often the case, they began the week as strangers and ended the week as friends. Listening to them interact around the meal table in the evening, one would...
Spring break for nine Eastern Mennonite University students involved a trip to Puerto Rico where they learned how to put on a roof damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017. They were joined by the campus pastor at EMU. Introductions during orientation had...
Monday was a bit chaotic for our group of nine skilled energetic young men from up-state New York, Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas. But by the close of the workday on Friday, this crew had finished one house and made significant progress on two more....
A group of men from Holmes County Ohio began their week in the mountains of Puerto Rico near Jajuya and ended the week in the city of San Juan. Wednesday was the transition day following a well-attended home dedication. All four Jajuya projects begun...
This was another week with too much rain. Rain is not conducive to putting roofs on houses. But in spite of the weather a lot was accomplished. Since one house was a new build, there was lots of inside work to be done. They finished installing the T1...
The word for this week was rain. We’re not talking once a day, as is typical for Puerto Rico, but it rained all day Sunday through Wednesday. Instead of the chickens crowing and the birds singing each morning as we woke up, we woke to the never-...
We continue to work near Jayuya, Puerto Rico. This week we have a crew of all males from the United States and Canada. What a hard-working bunch they are. Tuesday the crew split between two different job sites. They finished putting up all the...