Greetings from the Midwest. I want to say that I am absolutely crushing the midwest right now...in the past week or so I've racked up 3 new states--Michigan, Indiana and Missouri...and ladies and gentlemen we're not done yet. I've still got Tennessee and Arkansas to go.
Like I said...absolutely crushin' it.
The cause for this little roadtrip is to meet with agencies and organizations like the Minnesota Conservation Corps, Americorps St. Louis, The CRWRC, etc... We've (and by we've I mean Hands On) worked with these groups over the course of the past year and this was an opportunity to go in and shake some hands, exchange some business cards and essentially say hi. While a trip of this nature requires a lot of time in the car, I think it's great to meet with these people outside of the hectic environment of wherever we happen to be deployed--so it's good, I'm learning and making some connections.
The next big thing on my agenda is going to Haiti. This is something that has been on the radar for a little while now and it looks like it's finally going to happen. I am excited--so excited. The opportunity to go to a place like this (albeit, only for a month) has me giddy. Hands On has a project in Gonaive, a city north of Port Au-Prince by about 4 hours where they've been working on a variety of projects with the people affected by Hurricanes Ike and Hanna since November. The projects range from removing Mud from homes to well ring construction, playing with children at a safe space, etc...for more info on the projects go to www.hodr.org because the work being done is absolutely amazing.
So yeah...I have a camera ready to capture this experience and will try to post some either here or on facebook when I can.
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Better get to Gonaives before the mud is all gone! Have fun.
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