How do you capture the essence of an experience?  How do you put into words feelings your heart and head cannot quite comprehend? With this understanding I will attempt to tell you how the Blue House Effect and its work in the DR has touched my life.

To hear the laugh of an orphaned child as they play, forgetting all other things and just being a kid.  To feel the excitement as a mother realizes her children now have a safe, dry, comfortable place to live.  To sit with a group of women and to hear their stories of family and children, as they struggle to provide what they can.  To realize that you can make an impact by engaging people, by hearing stories, by providing needed tools be it financial, social or institutional.  To realize you have clearly received as much if not more from the experience then anyone you have interacted with.  And to pay it forward for the privilege of what you have learned.

This is my Blue House Experience