The end is in sight…only two weeks to go. We are down to our last two projects and each requires a major restoration to the roof. Mr. Raul’s house was a concrete structure with a beautiful country view. Unfortunately, it had lost its entire...
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The primary focus of this week’s team was the Mr Raul house. Mr. Raul’s previous house was totally destroyed by hurricane Maria. TECHOS discovered his need and MDS partnered with them. He was able to erect some preliminary block walls but...
Samantha (PD), Ronald (CL) and Gerald (CL) were primarily focused on Miss Raquell’s house for the first week of March. The new team had to first tear off the old roof metal and purlins. Next, they reformed the top of a bathroom wall. When this...
Completed Mr Pablo’s roof. They had to create new trusses and add a hurricane resistant tin roof. Similarly, they completed the final touches to the fine work began by the January Teams on Mr Andre’s and Miss Joan’s houses. It was a week of...
This week we had another group of internationals! Except this week we had more Canadian’s than other countries, we all got along just fine, (even after Canada won the 4Nations hockey) and it was great working together. Amazing things happen when...
This week was a transition week for everyone at the project as we moved from Arecibo back to the Techos headquarters in San Juan, and an OM transition midweek. The volunteers this week were from Canada, USA, and Germany. (If I make the a broad...
The Project Leadership transitioned last weekend. We bid farewell to Larry and Karen, Jeff and Becky and Dorothy. Rex took over as Project Director and I replaced Karen as Office Manager. We also welcomed Pauline as Cook and Nevin as Crew Leader. We...
The Project Leadership transitioned last weekend. We bid farewell to Larry and Karen, Jeff and Becky and Dorothy. Rex took over as Project Director and I replaced Karen as Office Manager. We also welcomed Pauline as Cook and Nevin as Crew Leader. ...
One volunteer from Iowa stayed with us from last week; we gained 6 young men from Pennsylvania and another man from Ohio. Three people from for our partner Techos Pa Mi Gente (TPMG, Roofs for My People) helped us each day with the construction work...