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Gone Fishin’ & Last Goodbye’s

Today Katie, Cody, Nickolas, Sterling and I spent some time at the People’s Organization of Agape and Camayaan Aquaculture facility.  I got to meet all the people I have been corresponding with for the past year or so.  Greg explained to me how the organization works  and showed me the new expansion that they have been […]

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Sagbayan – The Epicenter

Today Mery, Laura, Cody, Nickolas, Monet, Yoyoy and I traveled to Sagbayan, the epicenter of the earthquake.  It was a startling scene.  Not because of the damage from the earthquake, but from the fact that so much of the damage is still there.  It has been 3 months since the earthquake and it looked like it […]

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Off to Tacloban

Tacloban was in the direct path the most recent typhoon to hit the Philippines. Here’s what Wikipedia had to say about this typhoon. Typhoon Haiyan, known as Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, was an exceptionally powerful tropical cyclone that devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, in November 8, 2013. It is the deadliest […]

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First House is Finished!

Despite the rain, language barriers and transportation issues, we have completed the first of 100 homes!  Hooray!   This is the Reambonanza family.  Their house was damaged beyond repair. By that I mean it collapsed flat to the ground.  They were able to push the walls back up and lean them on each other to […]

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Helping Hungry Kids

A year ago we adopted about 40 malnourished kids from the Calunasansur Elementary school and started a lunch program to try to help provide some care and nourishment for these needy children. There are 180 kids who attend the school. Each child gets a healthy lunch of rice, a vegetable or fruit and some other side. […]