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Photos from 6/06 Mission Trip to Leon

Construction of "Casitas" for Indigenous Families

July 2007 Trip Team: Building Tacho's House

It was pure joy to build the interior walls of Tacho's house. Tacho has guided us and instructed us on every construction project for 7+years at Casa Indigena . He is a natural leader and a young man of great humility and patience.

L-R back row: Al Coppin (Unity in Marin) Gerrardo, Zoe Glas and Denni Locke (Saus. Pres.) and Tacho

L-R Front Row: Tacho's daughter, Jim Clark (Unity in Marin ,) Gerrardo's daughter, and Bob Hunter (Saus. Pres.)

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August 2007 Trip Team: "Campamento" Summer Camp for the Casas Kids

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Team Leon, Summer 2006:

Michael McCall (SPC'er now living in Phoenix), Laura and Hayley Smith, Denni Locke, Manuel Marquez (member of Casa Hogar's "patronado" or board of directors), Bob Hunter

Laura and Hayley Smith at work on a "casita", a dwelling for an indigenous family moving out of temporary housing at Casa Indigena

Indigenous kids playing in the scaffolding of the "taller" or workshop for job training under construction at Casa Indigena, funded in part by our church's contributions

Architecture students from Leon's Ibero University, looking over their plans which they donated for the construction of the casitas

Our second trip was in late July 2006, to lead a summer "campamiento" for the kids of Casas Loyola. The trip was led by Flora Sommers and included 13 adults and teens: