Monday, June 2, 2014

Day Four

Today we started with breakfast at 7am. We left for the POI Villa Nueve, which is a before and after school tutoring and feeding program for community kids. One group from out team took out "Love Tubs" to five different homes. They said most were one room homes with seven to nine people living there. 
Our group stayed to work at the POI school. 
There were 40 kids there in the morning. We had three activities going at once and the kids rotated through each station of recreation, craft, and Bible story. Our family helped with recreation. The kids had a ball jumping rope, playing a game with beanbags, and a big parachute. We didn't have much room for parachute play, but the kids didn't care and squealed with laughter the entire time. 
After three rotations, the kids ate lunch which was spaghetti and a tortilla. We said adios and many gave us big hugs. It was time for them to go to school. In Honduras, public schools have classes either in the morning or afternoon. 
After they left, we had lunch which was a sandwich and chips. 
The two groups swapped for the afternoon. 
Our group walked with the water truck instead of doing tubs of love. Normally, once a month a truck comes and will fill tubs if water at houses if they pay for it. POI pays for the water and fills their pails for free. It was great seeing the families get clean water. We also passed out candy to everyone we saw. 
We returned to the POI building and saw the afternoon kids. We saw a sweet first grader names Marisol. We found out she had no sponsor and decided our family would sponsor her. 
POI provides health care for her and her family, after school tutoring for her, and one hot meal a day for her. All that for only $30 a month. If your family is willing, I encourage you to contact POI and they can sign you up to sponsor one of these sweet kids. 
After leaving the POI building, we split up and went to two different shelters to serve dinner and a team member shared their story. 
We went to a drug and alcohol rehabilitation place. There were 42 men and 5 women there. They were very friendly and thankful for the meal. Van shared his story. The team passed out plates of fried rice and drinks. 
We toured the place. It was pretty rough. They have meetings there to help those staying there get off drugs. 
After serving, we headed back to the hotel to clean up for dinner. We are at a place called Tacotento. They serve family style with lots of meat, veggies, guacamole, and sauces to put on homemade tortillas. 



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