Dear family and friends,

Today is our last day here, very sad. It will be hard to leave these wonderful people and this beautiful country. It got cooler today and rained quite a bit, which is wonderful for their plants and produce. It has been wonderfully warm, in the 80s and sunny all the time, so the cooling off today will make it a little easier for us to go home to the cold Chicago winter!

We went back to Uru East this morning to see Florentina's house where she grew up and meet some of her family. The red clay roads were very wet, slippery and muddy from the rain. It gave us a small idea of how difficult it is to live in these villages. Even though they welcome the rain, it makes it even more of a hardship to get through the roads to get their water or sell their vegetables. You can not comprehend living this way until you've seen it.

We came here to find more information about the water situation and possibly digging wells. This has turned into a much bigger scope than we could imagine. How could you choose one small area over another? We realized within the first few days after we arrived that would be impossible. What an amazing experience this has been. We have much information to review and lots of work to do when we return.
It Can and Will Be Done!!!!!

Our deep gratitude goes out to everyone for their prayers and support.

Love to all,
Margie, Barbara, Chris, Jeremy and Matt