Day 3

We went back to the Sunflower and finished up our projects all morning and then headed off to a remote village high above Urubomba. The dentists had started there in the morning so the kids knew we were coming and as the bus was driving into thier village they came running from the fields say HOLA!!!! This village had no running water. It was all mud brick huts! Incredible that people still live like that! We taught the new moms how to bathe thier babies and put on diapers. These mothers had no idea how to put on diapers! We gave them a newborn kits, with diaper rash medicine, baby soap, pjs, clothe diapers and hats. Some of the babies loved the bath some did not like it at all! Some babies had horrible rashes all over thier bodies - very sad! Then we taught the little kids how to wash thier hands. We painted fingernails and painted with face paints on thier hands - we didn't have any mirrors for them to see it on thier faces so we just painted on thier hands! The people were so friendly and happy! Amazing how happy they were! They had NOTHING! It was truley a lesson for us and a hightlight of the trip! After the village we hiked through some incredible salt flats and made it back to urubomba late - ate dinner at a pizza place ran by a little family with a brick oven and then went to bed! Another full day!The shelves we built full of our back packs and hygiene kits and school kits - before the shelves were built everything was just piled up in corners it was so great to have it all with easy access and see what they have and what they need!

Savannah painting fingernails! They loved it!!The kids on the Brick wall that surrounded the village high in the Andes

One of the moms let us love her cute little baby after her bath

Lauren helping bathe the babies

Lauren teaching the little kids how to wash thier hands

This is the kitchen by the village school where they make their school lunches! Incredible!

Floren!!!!
(she was always popular with the gum)