LES Kindergarten Teacher Helps Out in Guatemala

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Lawrenceville Elementary School Kindergarten teacher Jeff Berry recently joined a team of 23 others, including doctors, nurses, teachers, pastors, other professionals, and students, on a trip to Guatemala.

Together they set up health clinics that saw and administered to the needs of upwards of 700 people, mostly women and children.

They also built 12 specialized - and, as Jeff says, "ingenious" - stoves into the homes of some very impoverished people in a lakeside town called San Lucas Tolimon.

Additionally they tore down and rebuilt a house and replaced the roofs of at least 10 homes.

The Guatemalan families who welcomed the visitors into their homes each day did so with smiles, hugs, and offers of cold bottled water and delicious scrambles eggs and tortias.

Jeff related the following about the trip: "It was one of the most meaningful weeks of my entire life. It's made me much more appreciative of even some of the simplest 'comforts' we as Americans often take for granted everyday."