A visit to a Ngobe Kindergarten in the mountains of Boquete

Hi everybody,

Today Linda and I visited a kindergarten one room school. The elementary school is about 2-3 miles down a rough gravel/rock road. They will attend there next year. As you can see from the pictures the “classroom” is a one room small wooden structure without chairs and limited supplies.  About half the kids were without shoes and walk on rocky paths to get to the gravel/dirt road. All the kids got toothbrushes thanks to Janine Easton and Bree Shafer (Dr Fresh donations). Next visit they will get shoes thanks to Mandy and COD. Some kids had such bad decay you could see it from across the room. Some of them were hard to examine because they ate the playdoe! LOL. I did exams on the doorsteps and will come back to take the ones who need care to our clinic. On the road back down you can see the paved road below by an arrow. Beautiful place but difficult life! The teacher goes to the Mission church and her Ngobe helpers brought other younger kids.

Holly Ameduri with Western Christian School and COD are collecting shoes for the Ngobe kids. Some school supplies would help too (hint hint Marisa!! ). We are bringing chairs the mission has next time too.
Click on the following link to see the pictures.

https://picasaweb.google.com/mariommendoza48/KindergartenDentalVisit?authkey=Gv1sRgCNHR7tLZ486uzgE&feat=directlink

I love what we do and we are blessed to have the honor of serving the Lord here in Boquete.

Mario and Linda