This being our last distribution of the year, we finish 2010 with a grand total of 1,114,630 bedkits, after Nicaragua, 2010.
Our tenth day of distributionOur final day was planned for two sites to reach our target of 5,000 bedkits delivered. It was Rememberance Day back home and we reminisced about our personal experiences on this day with a sense of pride and gratitude.
Our first site was the rural school just west of Leon where we had been the previous day. The Rotary volunteer who had worked with us the previous day, had the site and volunteers ready when we arrived.
Shortly after lunch we were packing up and off to San Juan del Rio Coco, just beyond Ticuantepe: a four-hour trip. After we passed through Ticuantepe where we had been earlier in the week, we headed to the what was to be the most beautiful and challenging of our drives while in Nicaragua. Crossing an overflown “stream” and washed out road, up to our axels, we were all relieved at not having to get out and push!
Hairpin curves, large washed out chunks of road, verdant hills, and deep valleys were our reality for the fantastic 30-minute “drive” to the town of del Rio Coco. You could imagine hot flowing rivers of lava that had created the shapes and definition of what we were seeing.
Near dark we arrived and set up in the municipal centre building; happy to be indoors as the light of day was near gone.
A loud cheer went up from the team and Rotary volunteers as the last child received the 5,000th bedkit.
Happy and exhausted, we hugged and loaded into our vehicles after a job well done.
Janet Helmer
for Team Nicaragua 2010
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