Over the past couple days life has changed from docile, boring, everyday experiences to the extraordinary. We have been introduced to life in Mexico. From the building of family’s home, to playing with the young children, who happen to be very friendly and open with us. It has been an eye-opening few days we’ve had, and […]
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We Finally Made It!
Published by March 7th, 2010 in School of Leadership, FB, Other Sites, Testimonials, Student Zone and Hero Holiday. ClosedHola! We have arrived safe and sound, with a few minor speed bumps.
Friday started out with an all too familiar ferry ride to Vancouver followed by an unfamiliar ride down to the border crossing and then on to Seattle. From SeaTac we endured a three hour long flight, no movies mind you, to San Diego. […]
Breaking Boundaries
Published by March 1st, 2010 in School of Leadership, Road Team Blogs and Student Zone. ClosedBreaking Boundaries; a line that roots to many different causes of conflict. What are boundaries? Sometimes they guidelines set up to protect us from harmful situations. Other times and the context I am talking about, they are things that are built up within society preventing us from things that could actually be a positive experience. […]
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The build at Adoffo Lopez Mateos is now completed! The last couple days were very busy for our team. Thursday we put the roof panels on, and then the asphalt roofing. This took awhile because of the sizing on the panels needed to be adjusted but together under Randy, Brett, and Andrew’s […]
Okanagan Group Hard at Work in Mexico
Published by February 25th, 2010 in FB and Hero Holiday. 0 CommentsMonday, Feb 22nd. First day on our Hero Holiday.
With excitement, our team left our San Diego hotel and boarded the Hero Holiday coach bus for Vicente Guerrero, Mexico. The border going into Mexico went quite smooth – get off the bus, pick up your suitcase, and walk across the border. But push the button first […]
Dominican Republic is an amazing country and it is full of many kind and gentle people. Primarily there are two cultures that live there: Dominicans and Haitians. It is estimated that there are over 500,000 Haitians that live in Dominican Republic and of those, many are stateless, without proper identification papers or birth registry. They […]
...continue reading Three days ago we arrived at this beautiful area called Vicente Guerrero. As you can see in the picture, we have made great progress since we’ve arrived here. We finished assembling the walls, raising the roof and painting the bathrooms.
Our first impression of being here is that of humbleness. This experience really puts our […]
They have arrived! It is exciting that this university group, who we prepared for last May, has finally arrived. Their arrival was a little delayed due to the swine flu ordeal last Spring. It is great to have them here and their adventure started as soon as they landed when their airline assumed that Ben […]
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Published by February 2nd, 2010 in School of Leadership, FB, Other Sites, Testimonials, Student Zone and Hero Holiday. ClosedIn the past few weeks Mexico has experienced tropical rain storms that have resulted in mass flooding and serious damage. The common site here a couple of weeks ago was flooded roads and collapsed bridges on the main highway, houses swept away in the rush or ‘new’ rivers, and several flooded schools and some makeshift […]
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Just wanted to let you know that our Absolute people who are on the ground in Port au Prince, Haiti have confirmed that our friends at the orphanages we work with are in fact, all alive and accounted for. However, they have all suffered much loss as they have lost friends and family in […]
