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Day Three

Today we were working in our own backyard. The Lower 9th ward (where we are staying) was hit the hardest when the levees broke losing a lot of the houses and most of the wildlife. We drove down everyblock and asked people if they wanted us to plant a tree in their...

Team Member: Jessica Singer

My name is Jessica Singer, and I am a sophomore nursing major at UWO. I absolutely love volunteering, helping people, and making a difference within my campus and community. I am so excited and fortunate to have the opportunity to attend this trip, to be able to...

Day 2: Projects and Painting

Another great day here in the sun! We started off our day getting a tour of the beautiful city of El Progresso. Our awesome guide Amanda showed us the government building, a local high school, a supermarket, murals around the city and a photo gallery of the history of...

Day 3

iHola! Day three in Guatemala has been one of the best so far! Last night we ate dinner with a farmer for the second time, but this time we were able to converse much more. We did not have a translator with us so it was up to us to combine our broken Spanglish to...

First Day of Volunteering

Today we helped clear chinese tallow trees from the Audubon Nature area. We helped clear about half and acre of trees and they went in later to plant non invasive trees. Afterwards we went on our Hurricane Katrina tour. The three hour tour took us by the levees that...