Service Project

On Saturday we did a service project with our church.  We woke up early, and headed to the church. When we got there they divided everyone up into three groups, one group would start at a nursing home, one group at a government run school, and the other group would start in a slum neighborhood.  Our family was in the group going to the slum neighborhood.  When we got there, we put on our gloves and got to work.  There was a big water container on the corner of the street.  This was were the people around that area would get their water every day.  Around it, mud had built up on the road, and across the street there was a garbage pile.  Our job was to scrape the mud off the road, and put it in the garbage pile.  But after some time of doing that, they wanted us to put the dirt around the water container, and then put bricks around that.  So then we started bringing the dirt back over to the water container, and then brought brick over to it.  The whole time while we did that, the little kids of the slum would run around us, and they would want my mom and dad to take pictures of them.  After they had taken the picture, they would show it to the little kids.  The kids would then get really excited and laugh and run around.  It was really cute.  When we finished with the water container, we went across the street to the garbage pile.  It was overflowing onto the road, so we scooped it back onto the pile. 
Then we headed over to the government school.  There were not any children there at that time, but the rest of the people from church were.  We had to do a lot of things at the school.  Out front there were big mounds of dirt that they wanted us to flatten because the kids wanted a basket ball

court.  We didn't have very good tools for that, so it was taking a long time.  But then a bulldozer truck came and helped us out.  It went a lot faster after that.  Then we repainted the doors and the windows, and cleaned up around the school yard.  I found a small snake while digging in the dirt. The children at the school did not have any clean drinking water, so a bunch of people did some plumbing and wiring, and installed a water purifier.  Right as we finished it started to rain.  So we all got in our cars or on our scooters, and went home.  It was very fun serving people the whole day.