A Wayward Journey

We are staying here in Pimampiro for a month.  The first place we went when we arrived was the house of the only Americans in town - Paul and Sue.  They work with an organization called Mountains of Hope.  They are helping out at the school by teaching art, making a library, buying uniforms, and paying for transportation for the girls who have to pay to come down from the mountain villages.  They also bought 12 soccer balls for the school.

Paul and Sue don’t only work at the school - they help out at 22 other villages around Pimampiro.  They built a woodshop in one of the villages that makes puzzles out of drawings on wood that the school kids make.  Paul and Sue also help the poor people’s houses.  I helped redo a roof.

Paul and Sue are now in America raising money to come back for another three months.

Davy helped take the old roof beams out once they were taken down.

The old roof was terrible - old plastic sheets, gunny sacks, pieces of cardboard, and whatever else they could round up. It kept out the sun, but didn’t keep rain out very well at all.

A lone lightbulb dangles in the middle of the room.

The crew was at the house first thing in themorning.

Sue and I made sandwiches for the crew

The mom of the house made fried rice.

While we were enjoying the Sunday market, Paul and Luis were still working on the house - and created an unexpected skylight when Paul fell through the roof! They decided to replace that panel with a plastic one.

Sue with Amanda, the first kid she met when she arrived into Pimampiro.

Paul spent hours and hours and hours on that roof!