team had our own ideas on what we thought would help, but would need to remain unbiased while gathering information. We did not want to taint their thoughts, because they have been there and actually know what is going on. Sitting back and listening to everyone that has physically been in the village helped narrow New Beginnings goals. Our main job was to make sure that their plan fit within their goals and the goals of the people in the village. After talking to all the main people in the church and the village we narrowed the search to three specific goals. The biggest and most important goal was clean water for the growing population. Increase in education for younger children and improved literacy for the villagers. Improved health care, involving hygiene education, used medicine, and growing an herb garden. Once we had the three projects our team broke into three smaller teams. and Jason “Frazier” Heath Goad worked on clean water, worked on education, and Kayla Buchen “Jason” Tolly worked on health care. But there is an underlying goal that the church also would like to maintain, which is the fact that they do not want to change the rich culture of the people in the Dominican Republic. Clean Water Research Before We Left The clean water team started to look up information about four weeks before we left on the trip to the Dominican Republic. We wanted to become experts on how to dig wells and understand the situation better. This helped us ask better questions which would help point us the right direction when talking to the church and the villagers at El Mango Limpio. We looked
team had our own ideas on what we thought would help, but would need to remain unbiased while gathering information. We did not want to taint their thoughts, because they have been there and actually know what is going on. Sitting back and listening to everyone that has physically been in the village helped narrow New Beginnings goals. Our main job was to make sure that their plan fit within their goals and the goals of the people in the village. After talking to all the main people in the church and the village we narrowed the search to three specific goals. The biggest and most important goal was clean water for the growing population. Increase in education for younger children and improved literacy for the villagers. Improved health care, involving hygiene education, used medicine, and growing an herb garden. Once we had the three projects our team broke into three smaller teams. Jason “Frazier” and Heath Goad worked on clean water, “Jason” Tolly worked on education, and Kayla Buchen worked on health care. But there is an underlying goal that the church also would like to maintain, which is the fact that they do not want to change the rich culture of the people in the Dominican Republic. Clean Water Research Before We Left The clean water team started to look up information about four weeks before we left on the trip to the Dominican Republic. We wanted to become experts on how to dig wells and understand the situation better. This helped us ask better questions which would help point us the right direction when talking to the church and the villagers at El Mango Limpio. We looked
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