One of the few inexpensive things in the Dominican Republic is labor. A day worker can be paid with very little and be glad to have it. The Haitians work for even less. When the American teams come and pay someone from here they always pay more than the going rate so it's a real blessing for the workers. The leader of this team, Jim, after digging up plants and cutting back weeds for a bit, saw one of the workers with nothing to do. It didn't take him long to hire himself a helper!
This guy was worth every peso too. He was given his money up front and knew he was being well rewarded for less than an hour's work. After he had worked hard for a while, Jim gave him some more money to keep him going. The guy went home blessed. And we went home with about 40 plants to be planted at Restoration Ranch.
Melynda insisted that with that long a drive, we were going to put every thing that would fit into those two vehicles - and we did.
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