We all arrived safely in Managua on Saturday night, to be greeted by the Habitat Nicaragua Team. Despite the 16 hour journey, we still had enough energy to socialize and share a few laughs and past experiences. New members were made to feel very welcome. The hotel was great. We had a wonderful evening meal followed by sound sleep in comfortable conditions.
Sunday we got down to business, starting early in the morning, we left Managua for the highlands of Estelí. The Habitat Nicaragua team (Vittoria, Salim, Katia and David) provided us with the opportunity to visit all of the worksites and meet the 3 different families that we will be building for. It was difficult for many of us to experience the poverty and the circumstances the families are in. It was quite an eye-opener and made everyone realize how good we have it. After what we saw Sunday, we all returned to the hotel and felt that we must work very hard to help these families as much as we can.
The team approaches site number 1
As we made our way to site 1, we had to cross a bridge that was a challenge to cross and clearly unsafe. We are all keen to build a new bridge if possible.
With such a large group, we were divided into three teams and will be working separately on three different homes for three different families.
Family number 1
Inspecting site 2
A family of 10 live at site 3
There is lots of need for help in Nicaragua and we are anxiously waiting to get started.
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