On April 6th Middle School Community Service members traveled to the village of Las Colmenas to build chicken coops for two families in the village. This effort was the culmination of several months of fund raising to purchase the materials for two coops as well 50 chicks, feed and the feeders needed to give two families the means to generate income through raising and selling chickens.
The 21 students spent the better part of a hot, sunny Saturday measuring and hammering away as they built the coops in the yard of one of the two families that was going to receive a coop and chicks. This was a wonderful opportunity for our students to meet and interact with a less affluent Guatemalan family.
At the end of the day, tired students returned to Interamericano feeling good in the knowledge that they had helped two families by providing these families the means to help themselves make a better life.
I would like to thank the Jaber family for the donation of the rolls of chicken wire, as well as Mr. Murillo, a parent who joined us for the day with hammer in hand. I would also like to thank the wonderful teachers who generously gave up their Saturday to join us. And, finally, I would like to thank Carol and Mike Claypool whose organization, Give and Teach, along with their crew, made this opportunity for Middle School Community Service members possible.