Here is the majority of the staff and children with the donated water tank in the background.
The tank in the background is donated and usually filled by
a local Christian Palestinian-owned business.

A happy chilld. This is a reason for it all. Here is the face that we hope to always see.

Work in progress, in the dorm building. There is always more to do.

The library for the orphanage. The library is small and the books outdated. 
Please send better books in Spanish.

Ricardo, Betsabe and Adriana at the restaurant on the way to the valley of the Angels.

This is the water that most of Las Palmas uses for everything, even drinking.
Not just dirty, but very poluted as well. It is every bit as bad as it looks.

The cisterns that didn't work, designed to carry rain water, but cracked now, and useless.
Also uncleanable. Rainwater collection might work with care,
but the tanks have to hold water, don't 'cha know?

Discussing the needs and the neediest in Tablones Ariba. The discussion was earnest,
and the needs of the poorest were uppermost in everyone's thoughts. 
I guess that's how you know that you have the right people in the discussion.

Aug. 14 in Tablones Ariba. Medical supplies being accepted by Edelia Ochoa
on behalf of the village, with Hernie and Carolina looking on.

8/14. Something lives here, but what?
Small, really small monsters built this place, and they have fierce guard ants.

Santa Catarina 8/14. The teachers checking out the donatedschool supplies,
with Santos Alexis Posada Zumiga in the background.

Most of the congregation. We had great fun and learned a little too.

Santa Catarina 8/13.
Ramon, on the left, gave the invocation prayer with his right hand man for support.

Alexis, swimming in the river after fishing for shrimp.
That's Nicaragua in the background. The current is strong!

Santa Catarina 8/14. The community well. Watch out for the biting ants though!
Warm water, probably heated by the Nicaraguan volcano

Jefferson, Doni and Karen

Our welder and family. Junior, Alison, Claudia and a person to be named in November.
In their back yard. Good folks.

Las Palmas community leader Aurelia Barahona. She has good water, but says that #1 is water for her neighbors. She thinks of others first.  That's leadership.