Boys Club in Sabaneta

As you may already know, the boys club I started became an official site in May and we hired a Dominican guy named Leo Escalante to direct the site. One of the first orders of business was to begin a whole new club in a new area: Sabaneta. During my final months here I'm doing my best to establish this club and create all the little things that make a club a club: slogans, name tags, titles, Ryan Bucks (er, Leo Bucks), games, sports, Bible lessons.

It's gone really great thus far and I really enjoy it. Enjoy a few of the pictures from a recent club meeting.


This is the slogan for our club, in English: Dare to be different.


These beautiful murals were painted by Art Site students this past summer. Excellent work!


Singing a few songs to warm the boys up. Jose Antonio (on the right) doesn't seem too into it.


We meet in the morning and the afternoon on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This is the afternoon group, usually about 20 boys.


Pay close attention the lesson, answer questions about the lesson afterwards, earn Leo dollars.


After Tuesday bible study we have an hour of rec time. This is the soccer field outside where we meet. The building was built by the Catholic church but is never used.


On Thursdays we do activities. Over the past month we've done an egg drop contest where you build an apparatus to protect an egg that I'll throw from the roof. The contest is this Thursday and the winning team gets $400/each.


Often times I'll ask the boys random trivia questions as we're waiting to start the meeting and they earn $10 for every right answer. Sometimes I randomly throw $10 in the air and whoever reacts the quickest gets it. Jilson capitalized on this occasion.


Leo going for a home run in kickball. He's done a great job with the boys and his story and humble beginnings are a great example to them.