by Jeri | Oct 30, 2016 | Community Development, Water & Food Security
We know that EVERYONE, no matter where they live, should have access to clean drinking water, but this is just not the case. A lack of clean drinking water affects everything: overall health and immune systems are compromised, adults and children who are sick are...
by Jeri | Aug 23, 2016 | Haiti
We have 62 new Peer Educators in Haiti! We had such a significant experience in Haiti this month with our team from Compass Church in Vancouver, Washington. We spent 10 days in the Cap Haitien area building relationships, learning the culture and language, and...
by Jeri | May 5, 2016 | Community Development, Nicaragua
When we train 40 people and they turn around and share their new knowledge with 900 others! One of the most impacting thing we learned during our April trip to Nicaragua was that the 40 new moringa Peer Educators we trained in El Zapote and Granada just four months...
by Jeri | Apr 22, 2016 | Community Development, Nicaragua
While returning from a great trip to Nicaragua, I was re-routed through El Salvador due to the bad weather in Houston and then got to spend the night in the San Fransisco airport 🙂 In the tradition of making lemonade out of lemons, I took my new-found extra time to...
by Jeri | Jan 9, 2016 | Community Development, Nicaragua
This is Mercedes. She lives with her husband, Renee, in the village of Cristo Rey, Nicaragua. A village that’s right across the dirt road from the city dump. Most of the adults in this place make their living as garbage pickers. Their houses are pieced together...