#contigoecuador

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Not everyone wanted a bathroom because some people had access to bathrooms. Some people wanted a metal roof. Since putting in a bathroom and providing a metal roof were about the same price, people could choose which they preferred. 5 families chose roofs over bathrooms and we complied!

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We built four septic tanks while we were in Mamey during the week of March 16th! We still have one to go and need to hook up the toilets so we’re going back down April 7-9 to do so! 

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On March 16th Carlos and I went back down to the coast to put bathrooms in for the people of Mamey! Thanks so much to Angel who had everything ready for us when we got down there! All we had to do was pay

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I closed the generosity RAISE THE ROOF fundraiser.

I know it only *looks* like we received 50% of the funds, but we are actually fully funded! Counting the money from this GENEROSITY page, working with my high school, selling earings at my entomology conference and a donation from a generous donation directly to my PayPal... we raised a total of

******$4,200******

We've already built three houses. So that leaves us with ******$3,000******* to build three more houses. We'll obviously have money left over but Carlos and I have some plans - like bathrooms.

First I'd like to thank my high school Kingswood-Oxford (Kingswood Oxford Alums) for helping me and Meg Tabell Kasprak for not only being an awesome English teacher but a solid partner and friend getting this off the ground.

We organized a dress down day (where students could pay to not follow the business-like dress code). From that we raised **$900!**

After I sold earrings and pendants (the same that are available here!) at the ICE 2016 conference. From that we raised *****$2200!**** (For those of you who I said $2500 ... math is hard). Thank you Derek, Floyd, Miles, Aaron, Jake, Morgan, Jonathan Lason, Rachel, Ralph,Entsoc America, Julie, James, Joe, and countless others who promoted my work, kept me company, helped me build earrings, sent people my way, and people who bought jewelry.

Finally we had a donor who generously donated $500 before this page went up. His donation message: " I'm a video game artist but I love nature and insect photography. I found you by reading an article about how the new pokemon game is getting people interested in real insect hunting. I am very blessed to make a decent living so If you ever want to see my insect photography my Instagram is YemYam. Have a good day! :)"

Thanks SO much! Since April we've raised *********$7500 to build 12 houses!*********** Which is absolutely ridiculous and I can't thank you enough for caring about my family away from home so much <3

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After buying more rocks day two of building cement floors was a success! It's crazy to think that in just 6 days we built 6 houses complete with concrete floors! It was really thanks to everyone's help. Carlos's brother's and sister's husband came to help yesterday and today. And today his kids came and helped out for a while too! Carlos and I have to work again tomorrow. But after 10 days we'll be back to see how everyone is doing with their new houses.

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Preparando todo con rumbo a la Base Aerea de Manta - Manabí, #ContigoEcuador lista y solidaria, por naturaleza! #yonaciaqui #593ecuador ❤🇪🇨💕🙏💖👼💜 (en Fuerte Militar Huancavilca)

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Fuerza País / Fuerza Ecuador

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