11 PM - Christal Earle’s Blog

Some of you reading this blog may remember my story about the little boy at the garbage dump that I found that told me he couldn’t remember what his name was that his mother called him. He was an orphan and had been without parents for more than 7 years. He was at the dump that day because he often came there looking for food and to collect bottles to get some form of income (less than 25 cents a day).

As our truck pulled once more into the village (more…)

This past Monday morning, when my alarm went off, I wasn’t sure I wanted to get out of bed! I knew the day ahead of me would be wild and busy, and that at the end of it I would be physically and emotionally drained; and I was right:)

For the past 3 weeks, I have been leading the Hero Holiday teams here in Dominican Republic as we go to the garbage dump in our community and I have been overwhelmed with what we have experienced and how we have been changed; most of all myself! I have always considered my life to be rich beyond measure because of the people that I work with in Absolute, but this summer, I have a new reason: the Hero Holiday people that I am proud to lead. On Monday we threw a HUGE party at the garbage dump for the people who live and work in that community: complete with dancing, rice and beans, two huge (more…)

Here I am, sitting down again at the laptop,at the resort I am staying in, trying to reconcile the truth to how I feel…I met a little boy today who made it hard to accept…

I watched him the whole morning. He had orange hair and a distended belly under his threadbare t-shirt. His shoes didn’t match, and he was filthy. His hair was orange because he eats the food out at the dump and his belly is big because (more…)

I have a new friend: his name is Beto, and he is the boss man out at a dump where I am taking a group of Hero Holiday students everyday this week. We go to the dump and we hand out groceries, meet the Haitian refugees that are there, and we learn to see life from where they are and realize that we are not all that different.

Today, Beto wrecked my world. He has kind eyes, and when he smiles, I see someone who (more…)