Everyone welcome at this event to celebrate all the successful journeys to El Sauce, this year and in the past. Bring your friends and family. Bring your stories!

Sunday November 1, 2015

Hilton High School, a loyal and long-time supporter of 4Walls, is sponsoring a spay/neuter clinic in El Sauce this November.

“Did you know that in seven years nearly 5000 kittens could be born from one unspayed female cat and her offspring,” asks Spanish teacher Michele Ariola? “Because of the success of our first clinic, we are partnering with NicaVets for another clinic.”

Please visit the Journeys of Solutions website to see how you can help.

Our friend and long-time partner, Colin Johnson, has changed his business and sharpened his story. See more here.

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“like a griddle cooling
against the wall
of each long afternoon” Seamus Heaney

The old house

The start of the new house

The almost finished house with the roofers

Espinoza family and 4Walls volunteers in front of the completed house

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Maria Gillard, a Rochester songwriter, traveled to El Sauce in January. She wrote this song about her experience.

LADRILLO A LADRILLO (Brick by Brick)

It’s January in El Sauce, eighty-five degrees
Juan and Juanita and her friends play games in the neighborhood
We Americans are going there to help build a new house
With four brick walls, four brick walls

Now, some families, with ten or more persons,
live in houses made of tarps with holes in the roofs.
When it rains the adobe walls begin to crumble
And then these poor families are sad and humiliated

Refrain:
Brick by brick, board by board
Strong hands together, we build a home
while building trust and a bond
in our hearts, hearts and home

All of us, the children, and the neighbors work in the heat
Pepe, the chief mason, puts us to work with a smile.
He says,” Cut the cables, hose the bricks, dig a trench here,”
We are happy while we are working all day

The family of Juan and Juanita soon has a home
Sturdy and strong with a door and a window
When it rains in October, they will not have to worry at all
because once and for all, their home is safe and warm

Es enero en El Sauce, ochenta y cinco grados
Juan y Juanita y sus amigos juegan partidos en el barrio
Nosotros Americanos vamos alli a ayudar
Construen una casa nueva con cuatro paredes de ladrillos
Cuatro paredes de ladrillos

Ahora, algunas familias con diez o mas personas,
Viven en casas hechos de lonas, y techos con gonteras.
Cuando llueve las paredes de adobe comienzan a
desmoronarse
Y entonces estas familias pobres son tristes y humillados

Refrain Ladrillo a ladrillo, tableta a tableta
Manos fuertes juntos construimos un hogar
Mientras establecer la confianza y un vínculo
en nuestros corazones, corazones y hogar

Nosotros, los niños y los vecinos trabajamos en el calor
Pepe, el jefe abañil, nos pone a trabajar con una sonrisa.
Se dice “Corte los cables, manguera los ladrillos , cavar una zanja aquí!”
Estamos alegres mientras estamos trabajando todo el día

La familia de Juan y Juanita pronto tendrá un hogar
Robusto y fuerte con una puerta y una ventana tambien
Cuando llueve en octubre que no tendrán que preocuparse
porque una vez por todas ellos casa es seguro y cálido

“I build every house like it was my own,” says Felix.

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Three new houses. Three happy families.