First house built in 2012 that they helped with. With the help of volunteer construction teams that took months to build. Floors are just poured concrete out of Sak Crete . The structure is then bamboo or wood. Gnabe associate bamboo with poverty therefore they prefer wood. Most materials had to be carried by hand across a bridge. The houses are 20 ft by 20 ft the cost is $3500. The families help on their own home and at least 3 others. The gnabe are a very hard working group of people the building team asked for a backhoe to make an access road to bring in building materials across the river and the next day the gnabe people had already built an access road for them by using a pick, their hands, their feet, and shovels. To date their are 16 homes that have been built for the gnabe people. When we got to the clinic we took a walk across the bridge to see one of the homes that is being build for a gentleman named david. we were grateful and blessed to be able to see their home before we started another wonderful day in the clinic. Today at the clinic we saw 57 people. The pharmacy made bags for the health care providers. And continued organizing the pharmacy for future use.
The last picture you see is one person who only speaks Gnabe speaking to some who can translate from Gnabe to Spanish to the next person translating Spanish to English to someone who only speaks English.
This blog is to document our United Methodist Medical and Children's Volunteers in Mission team to serve the Ngabe Indigenous People of Panama. We encourage friends and family to follow our adventures. Our group will be in Western Panama from September 19-26, 2015.
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We are Ruth Archer, Rebecca Boone, Ava Farid and Mindy Healy. We will be posting news on our upcoming mission journey to Panama. Check back to this site for the latest news!
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Day four.
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