by dsiverns | Feb 14, 2015 | Compassion
Thursday was our last full day in the DR, and it was a great one. We had the privilege of spending most of the day with three LDP students (Leadership Development Program – if you have been reading along you’re clued in that Compassion likes the acronyms)....
by dsiverns | Feb 11, 2015 | Compassion
Today we got to spend the day hanging out and just having fun with Richard. Everyone on our trip had a fun day with their sponsor kid, and it was so much fun to hang out with them and play around as well as chat with them and get to know them better. Compassion does a...
by dsiverns | Feb 10, 2015 | Compassion
Today was another incredible day in the DR seeing the work of compassion firsthand. We visited project DR710 and were all blown away by staff, kids, church and work happening here. I’ll share a brief overview and then leave you with a story that I think might...
by dsiverns | Feb 9, 2015 | Compassion
Today was another great day. I’ll try to keep it a bit shorter as morning will again come early! We started by heading into downtown Santa Domingo to Compassion Dominican’s head office. I say downtown with very little sense of if that’s true or not...
by dsiverns | Feb 8, 2015 | Compassion, Uncategorized
Today was a very different day than yesterday, but a very good day. We started with a morning off – a rare thing for us as we’re usually at church for most of the day. After lunch we gathered everything that people had brought as gifts for the projects, piled it...
by dsiverns | Feb 7, 2015 | Compassion
Today was our first full day on the ground in the Dominican Republic with Compassion Canada with our team of 13 artists, spouses and Compassion staff. First observation – it’s much warmer here than it was when we left Canada (they don’t have snow!)....
