Tortillas are a staple of the Nicaraguan diet, or at least are prepared regularly for mission trip teams. In this series of photos, Carla learns to make them from one of the ladies cooking for our team. The heat source for cooking. The ladies who cook lunch and dinner for our team Read More...
This stationary bike provides power to pump water from the well. Progress on the latrine. Children in the village make valentines. Nancy and Graham with the children. Stephanie in the (well organized!) pharmacy. Hundreds of children's teeth have been painted with flouride. Handing out the home health kits. Gleaning for gold: Some Read More...
continuing a nicaragua mission tradition, here are some shout-outs from team members from the folks at home. Read More…
tuesday evening: we’ve been through the first two of four days of work in the village of jinocuao. it’s evening. we’ve had another outstanding dinner of beans and rice and homemade guacamole (from the oddest avocados you have ever seen.) nancy, kevin, courtney, lance, mary, stephanie, jamon (ham — it’s what james Read More...
Part of the team spent Sunday in the village of Jinocuao working at a construction site there the first half of walls for a new school already stand. Our team will help put a roof on the building, dig a new latrine, and help haul sand from the riverbed to the worksite. Read More...
it’s hot! but it could be worse, right? it could be snowing. we left managua after breakfast today and began the long drive to the chinandega province, the town of somotillo (and hotel el puma) and the village where we are working, jinocuao (heen-yo-coo-AH-oh). we stopped in leon (we’ll come back here Read More...
Scoping out the construction site in the village. The team is welcomed by the people of the village.
i heard the first rooster crow at 4:40 this morning. lance assures me that it began much earlier than that. a cool breeze is blowing across the courtyard of the cepad center where we stay in managua, a sharp contrast to what we expect later today in somotillo and jinocuao. paul checked Read More...
good morning from row 12, economy plus, 35000 feet. don’t ask me how we ended up in economy plus (doesn’t matter one little bit…and don’t mention it to the n.c. guys or ken hubbell because they somehow ended up in back with the a rabble). (you have no idea what a difference Read More...
Nancy & Cindy arrived in Nicaragua ahead of the rest of the team to have some of the vitamins approved by the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health (MINSA). They also stocked up on supplies for the rest of the trip.
Cindy Irey and I arrived in Managua on Thursday. We had with us all of the adult, prenatal and children’s vitamins so that we could get them approved by the Nicaraguan Ministry of Health (MINSA) before the rest of our team arrives. That will give us an extra day for the clinic Read More...
you may remember last year, we picked up a hitchhiking n.c. doctor in houston on our way to nicaragua. doug fit in instantly and was not only an enthusiastic member of the team but a blessing to all of us who got to know him. some of you may have met him Read More...
i was gonna write a blog post this weekend, talking about the work that's being done right now, that nancy and cindy are leaving a couple of days before the rest of us for a really good reason, that there's a ton of prep work to be done in the week ahead Read More...
what is it now? two weeks until we leave for nicaragua? plenty of time yet still plenty to do. there’s alot that goes on before we can actually leave on a mission trip and much of that preparatory work is done by carla aday and stephanie becker. (check it out…first time she Read More...
