For Spring Break this year, we joined up with a group from First Reformed Church on a trip to Mount of Olives Children's Village in Ejido Uruapan, Baja California, Mexico. The church has partnered with this orphanage for years and regularly sends groups down to help with projects.
The town of Uruapan has just over 600 people and the orphanage is located up on a hillside above the town. There are currently 17 kids at the orphanage, living in three houses, each with a set of house parents.
While we were there, our group built a house for a lady named Soledad. Her husband laid the foundation for the house ten years ago, but then he died and nothing came from it. She was living in a house with a tarp for a roof, blankets hanging in the windows, and an extension cord coming from the neighbor's house for electricity.
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| Soledad's current house |
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| Busy painting all the siding |
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| Not a bad place to work! |
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| Annaliese up on the roof helping with shingles! |
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| This is what the house looked like at the end of the week! The next groups that come down will keep working on it! |
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| Soledad made us all Chicken Mole and fresh lemonade! |
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