After an extremely cold night, Callie woke us up for our first work day. We started off with a delicious breakfast of bread, jam, and bananas, complemented by Manzanilla tea. Inka, one of the German volunteers led us to the work site where the boys would start digging up stairs where the children would read and where...
After our group came together at the airport, we made our way to cross the border to Tijuana. We ate dinner with our NGO partners, Alex and Maria, and we got to see the Madres y Familias deportadas office. Maria showed us what she does, and how she helps people who come to the office...
The past 48 hours have been an extreme journey starting with the 3:45 am wake-up call on Sunday morning, which consisted of a four-hour flight to Dallas, a connecting flight to Houston, and then the last and final flight to Costa Rica. After a fog block and flying in circles for a good 45 minutes...