Merida is an old colonial city and a thriving metropolitan area. It is a place of both great beauty and great poverty. Living conditions will be simple. Participants sleep in hammocks in the Institute for Downs Syndrome Children. The group prepares breakfast and lunch.
Dinner is prepared by a Mayan cook.
The school will serve the children of a working class neighborhood. It has been founded by several members of a local congregation. Participants will be pouring concrete columns and building concrete block walls under the direction of a skilled Mayan foreman. No previous construction experience is required. An overnight stay in a Mayan village.