Friday May 28 - Service and Tourism in Managua

This morning we had the opportunity to do a service project that was not planned by FH but by Jairo, our team leader. Jairo has some connections with other ministries in Nicaragua and so we were able to work something out with a local church to help serve food at the dump. It was great to get one more service project in and not just have an extra day of tourism. Every day Monday through Friday this church serves food to the children in two communities near the dump at noon. We left the Nehemiah center at 9:30 and got the car cleaned first, then headed to the church. The car cleaning was definitely needed and it also provided time for us to debrief and unpack our experiences from the trip so far. We got to the church named "El Faro" and then drove to the dump to help serve food to the community children. This experience was very challenging and shocking to see such poverty. I have seen this type of communtity many times, but it never ceases to shock me and is always hard. In the afternoon after finishing with the church, we went to the market in Masaya and then to the Volcano. I really enjoyed the Volcano and it was cool to experience that for a second time.