May 25th: This week we have been preparing for our upcoming visit to Haiti. WWR is excited for the culmination and graduation of nearly 100 students from the Health and Hygiene Club on Saturday May 28th. Haitian students from LYCEE, EFACAP, and St. Lucienne have attended this weekly class for over 6th months. Covering topics […]
May 23rd: We have continued to work with the local Barahona Rotary Club. There is a pending grant that is being processed. Once we have finalized these details we will be able to begin another WASH in Schools project in the Bateys. On another note, WWR is continually planning for the Mitchell Family’s visit to […]
May 20th: So, it’s officially monsoon season here in the DR. The past week it hasn’t stopped raining. I never knew riding a motorcycle in the rain would be so difficult. Electricity is far-gone and we have been adapting to a slower pace of life. However, one of our highlights this last week was to […]
May 12th. After a quick meeting at World Vision with Sola, the Plumbing Engineer, and Roland, a Hygiene Promoter we set out sight on 2 new schools in the Batey area. First, we went to Batey Los Robles, and visited their campus. We were extremely impressed with the care and cleanliness of their sanitation facilities. […]
May 11th: We met again with Rotary today. There is funding for Batey 6 secured here in Barahona, it will just be a process to get it out. We shared the engineering diagrams with the Club, and went over the budget together. Ben lead the discussion, and it seems to me that he has less […]
May 10th Today was AWESOME. We met with Sola Miguel Lopez, and engineer suggested to us by World Vision. With his firm handshake, it was obvious we had found a plumber. He, Rolando (a WV Health Promoter), Ben, and I rode out in the heat to Batey Cuchilla on our respective red motorcycles. Again, we […]
May 6-8th: I, Tim Douglas, made a 72-hour trip back to the US of A (from the DR). WWR accomplished 2 major goals during this time. The first, was securing another private donor funding (fist pump) for a WASH in Schools program in Batey 4. It will be our third planned Batey Project in the […]
April 27th: This morning we reconnected with World Vision at the District Office with Director Emilio Desena, and Community Leader Estevan Cuevas. We are lucky to have 2 months of planning ahead of us, and continuous time in the DR to map out our WASH programming. It hasn’t always been this settled. Estevan takes us […]
April 26th: Tonight, we visited with the Barahona Rotary Club. They are a very lively group who know much of Barahona’s history, the Rotary projects that have succeeded, and what needs to be done in the surrounding Bateys to return this sector of the Island back to its glory days. Or, as they put it, […]
April 23rd: Semana Santa has arrived with full force (and 24 hour electricity). Dominicans from Santo Domingo, and the interior, are flooding the coastal towns and rural beaches–just like the ones situated around where we stay in Arroyo. Families have traveled far, looking forward to spending Holy Week together and eating the occasional plate of […]