Dolores Puértolas shares this good news from Sabana Yegua.
This summer that has just ended has been even more vibrant than the previous ones in Sabana Yegua. It is a time of visits and very fruitful encounters for both the local community and for the people who visit us from different countries. These are the different groups that have visited us from abroad in recent months.
Seminarians from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. In what has already been configured as a mission experience and a linguistic immersion, six young men in preparation for the priesthood spent two months with us. The first month they took a Spanish course in Santiago de los Caballeros, in the north of the country, through the Catholic College Pontificia Universidad Madre y Maestra. The other month they collaborated in the different activities of the La Sagrada Familia Parish. The cultural and religious experience, the experience of diversity and the universality of the Church is what the seminarians value most in their time in these lands.
Sonríe y Crece Association. This is a group of volunteers from Spain who for 15 years have been visiting the Dominican Republic in the summer. Once here, they carry out a school reinforcement programme in the mornings and games for children in the afternoons, through which they transmit values and educate the little ones. They have also given talks on how to build houses safely to cope with the Caribbean hurricane season and activities to promote health and physiotherapy. Every year, young Spaniards from different professions dedicate themselves for two months to sharing their knowledge and friendship with the children and young people of Sabana Yegua. What they highlight most is the wonderful experience of having dinner with the children's different families, the excursions to climb the hill near the town with the little ones, as well as being able to get to know the warm culture of the country.
ESADE SUD interns. We have been collaborating with this Spanish Business School for four years: for three months, two interns who are about to finish their studies work at the Eco-hotel and retreat house Altos de la Caobita of the Community of Saint Paul in Barrera, located within the parish territory of La Sagrada Familia. This year they helped to improve the internal organization, create new products and promote the project. This year, we also started collaborating with the plastic recycling program “Reciclaplus” and created ecological packages to learn about the recycling initiative.
Professors from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. For the first time, two professors from the UPC School of Agronomy visited us to collaborate with the eco-hotel and develop a plan for varied crops that can be replicated in the communities, optimizing the use of water, a resource that is so scarce here in the South of the Dominican Republic. These were two intense weeks of a lot of learning and now it is time to get down to work with the plan we have drawn up.
We are grateful for these many contributions, which leave us with a deep feeling of friendship and are proof of the solidarity that so many people are eager to offer and share.
Seminarians from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. In what has already been configured as a mission experience and a linguistic immersion, six young men in preparation for the priesthood spent two months with us. The first month they took a Spanish course in Santiago de los Caballeros, in the north of the country, through the Catholic College Pontificia Universidad Madre y Maestra. The other month they collaborated in the different activities of the La Sagrada Familia Parish. The cultural and religious experience, the experience of diversity and the universality of the Church is what the seminarians value most in their time in these lands.
Sonríe y Crece Association. This is a group of volunteers from Spain who for 15 years have been visiting the Dominican Republic in the summer. Once here, they carry out a school reinforcement programme in the mornings and games for children in the afternoons, through which they transmit values and educate the little ones. They have also given talks on how to build houses safely to cope with the Caribbean hurricane season and activities to promote health and physiotherapy. Every year, young Spaniards from different professions dedicate themselves for two months to sharing their knowledge and friendship with the children and young people of Sabana Yegua. What they highlight most is the wonderful experience of having dinner with the children's different families, the excursions to climb the hill near the town with the little ones, as well as being able to get to know the warm culture of the country.
ESADE SUD interns. We have been collaborating with this Spanish Business School for four years: for three months, two interns who are about to finish their studies work at the Eco-hotel and retreat house Altos de la Caobita of the Community of Saint Paul in Barrera, located within the parish territory of La Sagrada Familia. This year they helped to improve the internal organization, create new products and promote the project. This year, we also started collaborating with the plastic recycling program “Reciclaplus” and created ecological packages to learn about the recycling initiative.
Professors from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. For the first time, two professors from the UPC School of Agronomy visited us to collaborate with the eco-hotel and develop a plan for varied crops that can be replicated in the communities, optimizing the use of water, a resource that is so scarce here in the South of the Dominican Republic. These were two intense weeks of a lot of learning and now it is time to get down to work with the plan we have drawn up.
We are grateful for these many contributions, which leave us with a deep feeling of friendship and are proof of the solidarity that so many people are eager to offer and share.
