Carol and Arturo are helping provide supplies. The Luke Society has also worked with the parents of students, providing money for a community oven for baking bread. The community is responsible for sustaining the project and has sought further training from a government organization. A second room for the community is under construction and should be ready by the new school year. Workers drink water from an old plastic jug of motor oil, only one of the causes of the region's many health problems.
People use any container they can find, whether from anti-freeze or pesticides.
The obstacles Carol and Arturo face in changing attitudes in the community remain huge. Even when teeth are healthy, a person might get one pulled to put in a gold crown or a white denture with a gold star as a status symbol. The Luke Society has provided first aid kits for all the schools and training for the teachers, who have learned to identify and treat lice, parasites, respiratory infections, malnutrition and diarrhea. When Carol visits the schools, she teaches the children ways to prevent these problems, teaching healthy lifestyles like brushing teeth and providing fluoridization and parasiticidal pills to the children twice each year. The children brush their teeth at the schools every morning.