The final Hero Holiday of the summer is about to arrive in Mexico, the group has been on the road for three days and I am sure they can’t wait to be here. With the Dominican trips, the Mexico trips and the private charters, this is the 7th Hero Holiday of the summer…and I […]
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Participant Blog: Coming Home
Published by August 20th, 2007 in Participant Blogs and Dominican Republic. 1 CommentI attended Hero Holiday Week 1 this year in Sosua, Dominican Republic. I have been home for just about a month now. People have been asking me how my trip was and I reply, “Oh it was awesome!” “It was great!” “Lifechanging, for sure, thanks.” But I could never open up about […]
...continue readingHello everyone!
All summer, in the communities that we have been working in with Hero Holiday, we would throw a big community party at the end of the trip… We had so much fun doing it in other countries, that we thought we would do it one last time in Canada!
Absolute would like to invite YOU to come and party with us one last time before we say good-bye to summer!
We are having an end-of-summer BBQ at our Absolute Main Office in Hamilton, on Friday, August 31, 2007 at 6:00 PM…
Please come and be our guest and enjoy catching up with old and new friends! There will be many of us there who have been on different Hero Holidays, are friends of Absolute, or are just wanting to hang out. We will have great food and great company!
If you are planning on coming, please email christal@absolute.org with your name and how many guests you will be bringing with you.
Hope to see you there!
It’s hard to believe this trip is coming to a close. Yesterday was an emotional day with all of our good-byes to the family we worked with for the last week. As I look out the window as we drive, I wonder how one survives this harsh climate day after day, year after year, […]
...continue readingAs promised, here are the photos. I’ll be taking more pictures later today when we do the house dedication. Can you believe the house is finished?!!
...continue readingSorry for the lengthy gap between updates. Our internet at the campground has not been working. Tonight I am sitting in the cutest little cafe. It’s been a busy couple of days. We have done two soccer camps, painted a day care centre and the roof is now up on the house. We are all […]
...continue readingThe first day here in Mexico was an education and orientation day. One of the objectives of this program is to educate our participants on why poverty exists and give them a greater understanding of the challenges that two-thirds of the world faces. Becky did a great job teaching us about the culture, why […]
...continue readingTrip three is back safely into Canada after a long trip home. We left Sosua by the Sea at 1:00 a.m. Sunday morning, took a two hour bus ride to the Santiago airport, and checked in, finally boarding the plane at 5:45. We all enjoyed a giggle, half sleeping and daydreaming when the […]
...continue readingHello everyone! We have arrived at our destination. What a beautiful drive down the Pacific coast through the mountains. We stopped to take some pictures along the way.
Our amazing team!
We are staying at Posada Don Diego campground. “Roughing it” for the […]
...continue readingDanica: How we all fell in Love
Published by August 2nd, 2007 in Newsletter, Social Justice, Front Page, Dominican Republic, Think Day, Staff Blogs and Mainpage. 5 Comments
I only know her first name: Danica. She was 18 months old, abandoned, and a Haitian child of parents with no country of origin, living in Dominican Republic. She was stateless, and no one knew she existed.
I had only heard her cry once, and had never seen her give any response to anyone. My friends, Phil and Donna, had found her in a house where she had been left alone for up to 8 hours a day because her mother had abandoned her and her father was in another part of the country working. He had people watching her, but he was no where to be found.
Absolute had decided that we would adopt her and we would commit to her medical and personal care. She was unable to walk or talk, and was very sick from a urinary tract infection that had been left untreated for weeks, perhaps months, on end. We had taken pictures of her and we were all excited Continue reading ‘Danica: How we all fell in Love’