Today was spent growing gardens and building more water filtration systems at the homes of two El Seybo residents.
It’s difficult work that induces blisters, bug bites and heat stroke. Still, the students prevailed and the local families reciprocated with offerings of extra eggs, sugar cane and a live chicken. Money is not part of the vocabulary of the incredibly poor so they trade and barter with what they have.
Felix is 84 years old and lives alone. Everyday, he performs random acts of kindness for his friends. If he sees a large pot hole in the road he finds a big rock to plug it up. He’ll give the shirt off his back and go hungry for days if someone needs him. His mother taught him never to ask anybody for anything except God. He wields a machete through the sugar cane plantation like a walking stick.