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Rio Beni Health Foundation

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Our crew is hauling life-saving water filters down the Rio Beni for the next few days. In the context of learning of basic health issues at this level in the “hierarchy of needs,” you, too, can learn more about the Rio Beni Health Foundation by going to http://staging.shouldertoshoulder-old.com/rio-beni-health-foundation/.  This SStS page has a button on the...

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Creating a Game Plan

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We just wrapped up our first week at the after-school centers. At the beginning of the week we went into the center on Basti Island with a game plan. We soon learned that the game plan we created was just not going to work for many reasons. One of those reasons being the language barrier....

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Our first day teaching

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Today was our first day with the cutest bundles of joy I have ever met. I learned many new things whether they had to do with Spanish or how different our lives are. To start off, when I arrived to the bottle-built school, I noticed the lack of doors. All of the wonderful classrooms are...

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