A picture of Mama Yoli's in Atacucho

Many of you know that last year while in Ecuador, we helped build a daycare in Atacucho. This year we will be doing some finishing work on the existing building and starting on an addition to the building. The addition will be a church, pastor's living quarters, SIFAT office space and larger kitchen/cafeteria for the children of the daycare. This is a fairly current picture of the daycare (Mama Yoli's). Last year we were on the 4th floor building columns to support the 5th and final floor. As you can see, it is pretty high up there and extremely windy! When you are looking at the picture, imagine a fence around the top of the building and children playing on swings and monkey bars...kind of hard for us to do isn't it? In Atacucho, there is so little available land, they build their playgrounds on the roof. This year in addition to digging footers for the new building and finishing out the old building, we will be teaching VBS programs at home daycares in the morning and Mama Yoli's in the afternoon. Added to all of that, this year, there will be a medical/dental aspect to our trip as well. The team members who will be working with the medical and/or dental professionals, will also be at Mama Yoli's. They will provide dental work, give immunizations, perform minor surgical procedures and as many other needed health related check-ups as possible. We look forward to having that aspect added to our trip! I will send more later but did want everyone to see the picture of Mama Yoli's!!!