I take off for el Salvador on Monday. Padre Fuentes will pick me up at the airport in San Salvador and we will go to his home there.
The time I am there should be interesting. We are planning a trip to Guatemala to look at another mission group's activities and then they are visiting us in El Salvador to view the missions of Padre Fuentes.
After that we are taking some people that need eye surgeries and eye glasses to a town on the coast. That town is La Libertad. The group is called eye care international. They have a website if interested. They have been helping the people with these needs for 15 years. It is an all volunteer group. I am told that in a 2 week period of time they see between 3000 and 5000 people. It is hard for me to understand that there is such a need for this type of medical attention. This should be interesting and it will be great to see that some of the people in the town of Aqua Caliente where the Padre's school is will get a little help for their eye problems.
Our goal is to see if we can get them to come next year to our area so that thousands can be helped.
Finally, several projects at the Padre's school we are working on. The school year in el Salvador began on January 15th until November 15th. I am bringing some used tablet computers donated from Bishop Hartley High School, to see if we can get them working and figure out a way to work them into the curriculum.
So lots to do and lots of people to see. The weather will be hot and dry. This is their summer which lasts until about April. Then it is winter when it starts to rain. So all is dry now. The roads are dusty and crops have been harvested from the mountain sides.
Hope you continue to look at the blog as time goes on.
Jim
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