Happy Belated Wednesday

After a long day at Modero and some late night pizza and wine at Freds (the head honcho at La Vina) we missed our posting for Wednesday. I´ll do my best to piece together a long day of events. We started out by heading to Sams (kinda like Costco down here) to pick up groceries to be later handed out in the community. We picked up Corn Oil, Rice, Tomato Sauce and other such ingredients to help stock some of the less than full fridges in Modero. A lot of the kids there do get to eat a fair amount but are a bit malnutritioned because they don´t get much variety in what food they do get. After picking up groceries we headed over to Modero where 4 or 5 of our guys were already there helping dig a trench for the sewage line being layed for the bathrooms we were helping build earlier in the week. After handing out all the groceries and finishing up one more mix of concrete we headed back to La Vina for lunch.

Later in the afternoon we headed back to Modero to serve some desert and hang out with the kids. When we got there the kids were already bouncing off the walls so we were excited to see what would happen when we fed them some coke, cake and cookies. Needless to say this sent them into new levels of horse play and we spent the rest of the night trying to keep the peace. It helped calm them down a bit when we pulled out about 60 Project Smile shirts and got them to fall in line. We then rallied everyone together for a big group shot. Some of the kids got shirts that fit and others looked more like long green robes but they were all equally thankful. After saying our goodbyes and figuring out how to say "see ya next year" in spanish, we piled in back into our yellow bus to head to Freds for pizza.

Over some pepperoni and cheese pizza Fred gave us a bit more background on what some of the greater needs are within some of the specific communities. He also talked about how we´ve helped to make some long term change in places like Modero. How the presence of organizations like the one we´re involved in have helped make a dent in things like prostitution and drug trafficing. We are excited to come to Calgary tomorrow and start to plan towards how we can begin to make a larger impact for next year and the years to come!