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Nicaragua: Amigos, trabajo, comunidad

March 30, 2016March 30, 2016Blog Editor

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Nicaragua: Finishing Our Project in Solidarity

March 30, 2016March 30, 2016Blog Editor

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A Pile of Carpets, or a Pile of Fun

March 30, 2016March 30, 2016Blog Editor

Today, we went back to the Restore. Most of us moved carpets and stacked large boxes in the alternate warehouse for most of the day. Although, a few of us remained in the store’s main warehouse to help organize and restock the inventory. We jammed out to some sweet tunes on a boombox, and...

Sewing Day Three!

March 30, 2016March 30, 2016Blog Editor

Everyone embarked on different projects today. After we made some jumpers, dresses, and other baby outfits, our projects were hung on display in front of the window to display our hard work. After picking up food from Main Street, we headed back and settled into an afternoon of hard work....

From Castle to Kitchen

March 30, 2016March 30, 2016Give Kids the World

3/29/16: After a good night’s sleep we had another early start today and ate breakfast at 6:30 AM. At about 7:00 AM we left the hotel and headed over to Give Kids the World. We all had new jobs like helping children to get their stars placed on the walls of the Castle and...

Day Two, Bayshore Trip

March 29, 2016March 30, 2016Bayshore Discovery

After the tour yesterday we were ready to start working. Today we worked on sanding different parts of the masts for the boat. In total we sanded close to 5 masts. This was to prep the masts for the varnish tomorrow so that the new varnish will stay on the wood for a while....

Nicaragua: Sharing soccer, strength, skills

March 29, 2016March 30, 2016Blog Editor

This morning we went to the Casa Del Niños art school. We did many different service projects, such as painting beams, shoveling old footings so that new foundation can be put down, cutting rebar, and then making them into squares for rebar foundations. Then we went to a women’s craft collective. There we learned the...

El último día en FES

March 29, 2016March 30, 2016Blog Editor

Today we spent the entire day at FES participating in workshops and classes with the community members. In the first part of the day we had the option of finishing the mural, making bread, making dream catchers and mosaics, or working in the garden. We had lunch and merienda with the community and had a...

From Ashes to Ashes and Dust to Dust

March 29, 2016March 29, 2016Blog Editor

Day 2: Today we visited Habitat For Humanity’s Restore Center, and it was an extremely different experience than Palmyra Cove. We started off the day with a tour of the center by Mike. Mike showed us where we would be working and then we split up into groups. Some went to clean up carpeting,...

Quilting: One Down, Two More to Go

March 29, 2016March 29, 2016Quilting

Today Shelby and Jessica completed the first quilt. All of the groups are working incredibly hard to finish their projects. So far the day has been filled with laughter and smiles. I can’t wait to see what’s yet to come for the new quilters....

Rough Start, Strong Finish

March 29, 2016March 29, 2016Give Kids the World

3/28/16 We started our day early by arriving at Moorestown Friends at 5:45 AM to depart for the airport. From there we ate and socialized as the arrival time to Orlando, Florida had been pushed back by an hour due to delays caused by mechanical errors, thunderstorms, and even a 30-minute baggage claim delay. Following...

Service at the Bethel Orphanage

March 28, 2016March 28, 2016China

We started off our day with our usual breakfast of toast, eggs, sausage, and ham. Following that, we started our bus ride to Bethel, where we would volunteer for half the day. Before we started to work, we spoke to Anna, who gave us a brief introduction of the history of Bethel. It was...

Sacred Spaces Day One: Service at Manna and Introduction to the Interfaith Center of Philly

March 28, 2016March 28, 2016Philly Sacred Spaces

We spent our morning at MANNA making nutritious meals for people who are ill and unable to do so for themselves. We met out guide Andrew who introduced us to our interfaith encounters through a team activity and an overview of a week of encounters and workshops. Some of the experiences we are the...

Creating the elements of a totem pole

March 28, 2016March 28, 2016Blog Editor

Today, we spent most of our time working with clay — getting to know how the medium works and then creating elements of our first community artwork. As an opening exercise to awaken our creative spirits, we each formed and imprinted nine clay “pebbles” with our palm prints. We then gathered in Stokes Hall to assemble...