Day 9: May 23

We had a visit from the representatives from Soliedade do Sol, the NGO we will be working on a service project with this weekend.  They discussed how they began the project of building solar water heaters on needy peoples homes as well as how they work.  We look forward to building these heaters this weekend.


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