March 2004 Service Trip to Tobati, ParaguayIn March 2004, the team took 51 students, 8 teachers, 2 alumni, and 12 Connecticut doctors to Tobatí. Along with attending the emotional opening of the Macchi Education center, helping with free medical clinics, and visiting scores of schools, the team worked almost without rest on several important construction projects which included the construction of a respiratory isolation wing and a stone fence at El Centro de Salud, the construction of three classrooms and three bathrooms at the elementary school in the rural village of Rosado, the final construction touches at the Macchi School, the construction of a bathroom and classroom at la escuela San Jose Obrero, the construction of an athletic facility to be used by the youth of Tobatí for soccer and other sports at Colegio Capitan Pedro Juan Caballero, and the construction of 5 other classrooms and parks at different rural schools throughout Tobati.
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