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Espri Beuregard works with Miguel Angel Espinal of FUNDEPROCUNIPA--a
river conservation group in Paraiso, which means "Paradise". The
region sports amazing biodiversity--ranging from the beach up to
a cloud-forest further inland. The community is interested in driving
their own development, and Espri's helping identify sights and plant
folklore, mapping trails, and more for ecotourism.
 Erica
Smoker and Charlotte Gingerich are living in remote Rio
Limpio, working at CREAR -- a rural agricultural training school.
Erin Behan is not too far away
at Las Rosas, teaching children during the summer school break.
Here are Erika and Erin getting
ready for the trip down the valley in the back of a truck.
 Kirsten
Kelley is teaching English and helping out at a child care center
Centro Buen Pastor in San Pedro de Macorís. Her host mother
and supervisor, Reverenda Mercedes (here
with youngest daughter Paloma), is one of three Dominican women
priests in the Episcopal Church.
 Elisabeth
Miller lives with Mateo and Monica LaFond in La Caleta de Boca Chica.
She's travelling to different bateyes (villages of Haitian
cane cutters) with Mateo, a community development worker, where
she's organizing activities for children.
 Elizabeth
Lapp and Anne Berry (here with
Jahaira) work at the public hospital in Sabana de la Mar. Among
other things, they've been making
bandages.
 Klaus
Huebert (here on an earlier field
trip to Los Dajao, with Emily Whitehead) is teaching English
to rural folks in Los Dajao, in the mountains above Jarabacoa. He's
living with members of ASADA, an agricultural organization in Los
Dajao involved in many aspects of rural development.
Christina Anderson
is teaching English at the Universidad Nacional Evangélica
in Santiago de los Treinta Caballeros. She has one class of adults,
and one class of 3- to 6-year-olds. A week before the end of service,
she climbed Pico Duarte with Klaus--at more than 12,000 feet,
it's the highest peak in the Carribean.
 Emily
Whitehead has been singing in a choir and editing manuscripts at
a Episcopalian music school in San Francisco de Macorís.
Here is an image of Emily with her
host family.
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Christina Anderson
