Spring break: Kennedy in Mexico

Very proud of junior Mike Kennedy, who is on a service trip with Marist's campus ministry down in Mexico. Here are some photos along with his email report from there, where he has limited training terrain (loops are great, though!):

Hope all is well back in the States and you’re having a good break. Training here has been going pretty well. Just have been doing loops on the soccer field here. Ready to GO in 3 weeks!

It’s hard to put it into words but this trip has been an eye opening experience. The joy and the love the people who live here express is something I’ve never seen before. I am very grateful to be here with such a great group of fellow Marist students and Marist Young Adults.

The community center we are staying at is sponsored by the Marist Brothers and is called the “CEMADE Center” in Merida, Mexico. One of the main goals of the center is to use the food grown in their gardens and feed 200 local children lunch every Saturday. Ultimately though the Marist Brothers here want to be able to serve these children lunch every single day of the week. The 3 projects we are working on are cleaning up & repairing the main garden on the property, expanding the greenhouse, and creating an enclosed space for the animals the center has to live in. The work is tough but very fulfilling.

Attached are some pictures of the greenhouse where we are beginning to lay down the cement blocks and the garden where we finished weeding and are now going to put up a fence! The week is going by fast but we still have two more days to get everything done before coming home on Saturday.