Here are some upcoming application deadlines that you might want to take note of:
- November 1, 2007: Application Deadline for Thailand Spring Break (Mar 9-24, 2008) Hero Holiday
- November 15, 2007: Application Deadline for Mexico Spring Break (Mar 1-11, 2008) Hero Holiday
- December 1, 2007: Application Deadline for our Student Leadership Program
- If there is enough interest, we are considering running a Christmas Hero Holiday Trip in Mexico, for families and individuals. Please email our Hero Holiday Director, Charles Roberts, as soon as possible at charles@heroholiday.com, if you are interested in the opportunity to do something significant this Christmas.
Please visit our trips page more more information, or visit our applications page to apply
Published by cathy August 12th, 2007
in Newsletter and Mexico.
As 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?!!
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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’
Some of you reading this blog may remember my story about the little boy at the garbage dump that I found that told me he couldn’t remember what his name was that his mother called him. He was an orphan and had been without parents for more than 7 years. He was at the dump that day because he often came there looking for food and to collect bottles to get some form of income (less than 25 cents a day).
As our truck pulled once more into the village Continue reading ‘Now He Knows His Name!’
…this is where we ended up!
School Project #1
The Clinic. Not bad for starting from scratch, I’d say!
The upstairs classrooms. Kind of hard to take pictures that do it justice. There are 4 classrooms under construction here. Continue reading ‘By the end of Trip Two…’
Published by christal July 4th, 2007
in Newsletter and Dominican Republic.
I have a new friend: his name is Beto, and he is the boss man out at a dump where I am taking a group of Hero Holiday students everyday this week. We go to the dump and we hand out groceries, meet the Haitian refugees that are there, and we learn to see life […]
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Absolute Leadership Development and Hero Holiday would like to announce the beginning of an exciting experiential leadership school; this initiative is a nine month personal development program with global possibilities! Absolute’s school of leadership focuses on you, your generation, and the global community in which we all play a key part.
During the nine months, you will experience a wide range of opportunities and possibilities. Your year will be split between Canada and Mexico. Half of your year with Absolute will be in (more...)
We believe that parents, friends, family and supporters back in Canada play a very important role in making Hero Holiday an incredible experience for our participants (after all you are the ones that will have to listen to their stories for hours on end) and through the use of this blog we try to do our best to make you feel a part of this experience (last year we had a video producer that made a number of amazing video montages as the trip progressed). To start our trips off this year I thought that you might like this interactive map of what we are doing:
Click this link to go the full version on google maps
On some of the areas you can zoom in quite far for a detailed view. More details and photos will be added to this map very soon!
Well, at least some of us slept this morning. The construction site next door began just as I lay my head on the pillow to have a little sleep. The weather is a bit “cool” today, only about 35 celsius today (45 with the humidex)! After lunch we all jumped on the trucks to take a tour of our projects for this summer.
1. School in Arroyo Seco
We are continuing our school project from last summer. When we pulled up to the school, we were a bit emotional, seeing the product of our labour and I think I even saw a few tears. After we left last summer, a few teams came through Continue reading ‘Our Projects’
