Celebrating the completion of the perimeter
wall outside the orphanage by the
Pitt-student group in the summer 2002 with
local workers and thechildren from the hogar de niños
In 2002 a group of students from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown participated in a service learning/development project in the Bolivian Andes.
Dan Flynn, senior, volunteered to participate
in the program
Sister Leticia with
children in the assembly room
Watching our bags
After receiving a donated
a toy
The (recently constructed) girls' dormitory
in the orphanage
Anne Kainario working
on the perimeter wall
Children of different
ages are in the Hogar
Without power tools
and exposed to the southern sun, digging the trench for the outside wall
at an
altitude of 8000 feet
proves challenging during the first few days
Heavy stones are used
as wall foundation before the cement is poured
Workers and students watch as the children
of the Hogar perform traditonal dances to
thank the volunteers
The construction of
kitchen and assembly room
Volunteer Anne Kainario
with the Children from the Hogar
On a second visit in
January 2002, I found myself "mobbed" when handing out donated toys
Paul being very serious
"más mezcla!!"
-- the arduous task of hand-mixing cement"
