Flip FlopsFor Friends Day One

Thursday was our first day here in the DR and it was such a amazing day!  After a very long journey on Wednesday, my parents, daughter, Lucy, my amazing friend Chris, and the one and only Wascar started our journey to distributing some of the 1200 pairs of flip flops that were donated by our friends, family, Rotarians, Girl Scouts, classmates, and community members!  

It was a day that made me proud in so many ways!  We began our delivery of the flip flops and gave out at least two hundred flip flops to the children and families of batey 106!  To see the idea that my daughter came up with, come to completion and see her interactions with the kids of the batey was priceless!  She jumped right in and was chatting with the kids, and giving them the flip flops.  I don't know who was more in awe, the kids, Lucy or my parents!  The saying a picture is worth a thousand words, is so true...  Here are a few from our visit!

 

After the distribution of the flip flops we made a quick stop to see our friends at Batey 105.  We will be returning there tomorrow with flip flops!  Wascar and I needed to see that our water station still had running water!  The good news is that there is still running water!!!!

Final stop of the day was the Centro Romana Rotary Club!  We are so thankful for our friends in this club for assisting with the distribution of the flip flops and soccer shirts!  They could not stop thanking us at the meeting for making so many people so happy by our small contribution to this little corner of the world!  Rotary International's theme this year is "Light Up Rotary" and they told us that our light is shining very bright!