Sacred Heart serving a meal and distributing clothes in Los Lanos

Painting the chapel in Los Lanos

Parishioners of Sacred Heart painted the chapel in Los Lanos on February 18th.

Christmas meal in Los Lanos

Every year the Knights of Columbus in Santo Domingo come to Los Lanos, a very poor community, to put on a Christmas meal for all the people there.

Project in Los Lanos

Alicia Manteiga and Jeff Anderson were here for most of August, working on getting land promised by the government to the people of the village, Los Lanos. The people of Los Lanos will use the land to grow their own food and maybe sell some. We are working to help organize the people to form a cooperative, which is a work is progress. Alicia and Jeff also bought three manual sewing machines and materials so the women and young girls could make products to sell. The machines must be manual as there is no electricity most of the time. I am waiting for Jeff to send me some photos of their work together, and will post those additional photos when I receive them.