Drew Honduras Project Pictures -- May-June, 2001

A new row of houses.	The goal--houses like this for everyone who needs one!	The bricks!  (materials and labor for one house costs $1,500)	Bridgit Cusato gets familiar with the bricks--and the kids	blocks carried up the  hill by human chain
Amanda Santiago carries another rock up to the building site	Kristen Ackley, Cecelia, Wendy, & Brenda with rocks	Johanna Merejo, Darlery Franco, and Tanya with more rocks	Neysa Miranda discusses progress with Padre Antonio	The pile of sand is the next thing that has to  go up that hill
Filling the bean sacks with sand (Manny & Johanna)	More sand (Jillian Aguilera-Kahn, Oscar, and Antonio)	Loaded onto the shoulder (Go Vicky!)	Then it must be carried (in this case by Alex Encarnacion)	And here's Neysa and her helper . . .
And at the top, the pile grows (Andy Philip and Mike Manfredi)	Sifting the sand to make cement (Andy again)	Mike Manfredi, David Dyer, & Andy Philip mix the cement	Work begins (these are real builders)	The foundations are finally in place
The walls start to rise	. . . And rise  . . .	The house takes shape	Dr. Manny (almost) advises patients at the clinic window	Manny & Doña Julia Chacon-Padilla

La Colonia Episcopal, Puerto Cortes--Drew Students at work

Bridget Stoyko	Wilbert Marte and friends	Jessica Dunlap	Jessica Dunlap, Jen Alves, and friends	Jessica with another helper	Jen Alves with Digna
Bridget Stoyko and	Que linda!!	Bridgit Cusato with "Peekacho")	Johannah Ridley (JJ) and friend	JJ helps with the transport of water

Jen Alves and friends	Jillian Aguilera-Kahn, Jen, & Kristen Ackley	Jessica Dunlap with more friends!	Johanna Merejo and her cheering squad	Wilbert Marte with the "Brrm brrm baby"
Students give a dance demonstration outside the pulperia	Bridgit Cusato, Neysa Miranda, Fuquon Jackson, and Jillian.	. . . And they really attract a crowd!	Elizabeth Salazar embraces the need to avoid dehydration . . .	. . . and lastly, of course, a game of soccer--with new balls!

Oscar (and the bus) Our 16 year old "security guard" who quit school in 1999 to work.	Antonio Mejia.  Bus driver and fellow volunteer.	........	Cecilia, Wendy,  and Brenda
When we got to the worksite, Oscar and Antonio watched for about a minute and then got in the line with us, passing bricks and carrying sand and rocks up to the building site. When Neysa commented on Oscar's strength to Antonio, Antonio said "No one in Honduras is strong, the food we eat is not nourishing enough for that.  Hondurans are strong in the heart and will.  That makes up for our lack of physical strength."           Both Antonio and Oscar lost their homes in Hurricane Mitch, and although they still live in rented houses, they worked alongside us to build houses for their fellow countrymen.			The blocks were almost as big as the kids and some of them could barely hold the cinder blocks when they joined us in the line, but they, too, stepped in to help us haul building material up that hill--and to inspire and encourage us when we were tired.