Monday morning the students divided into 3 groups. One group went to the private school and began what will become an education program for teaching parents and students the great importance of clean water. Another group began to assemble the tools and devices that will be needed to build the filters. The third group took water samples from many of the houses in Seis that have filters.
While all of that was going on, a large crowd was amassing outside our gate in anticipation of the Children’s Christmas gift distribution. Cheryl started by having the guards permit only a few at a time in the compound to keep the crowd controlled. When the OSU students returned to the mission center, they all helped distribute the Christmas gifts to Seis de Mayo children. Nearly seven hundred gifts were distributed that morning.
After lunch, the OSU students all chipped in to pack the truck and the bus with 350 gifts and headed to El Sauce; and by the end of the day nearly all of the 1000 gifts had been distributed. Cheryl will have to make some more gifts yet for those who did not receive one.
Today was torrential rain and high wind. However the team still got the build site established in El Sauce and built the first filter.