Today we met at the Providence POPs building in Portland to plan and get ourselves ready for our November trip to El Salvador. We had many questions, where are we going, how are we going to get there, what should we bring, what shots do we need, how will we be communicating with our families???
Mark Koenig, our fearless leader, Sister Ana, and Sandy, who have all been to El Salvador before, answered our questions and shared their experiences with us. We viewed a video on the history of El Salvador, which emphasized the murders of six Jesuit priests in 1989 and the subsequent Moakley commision which investigated the murders and traced them to the Salvadoran minister of defense. We also watched a slide show of the Providence 2005 Mission trip to El Salvador which answered a lot of questions. We each received a journal to record our impressions and thoughts throughout the trip.
This gives us the next few weeks to gather supplies, donations, and get some vaccines.
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