Day 19: See ya Cabilao

Today the GIEU said goodbye to our host families in Cabilao and took a boat back to the mainland. After we arrived back on shore we went to the Macaque reservation where we observed some monkeys up close and personal. This is the closest we have been to monkeys in our whole life. After our rendezvous with the monkeys we went to OWAC Bilar. OWAC Bilar is a facility which aims to provide clean and accessible water to its residents. The organization has made a lot of progress in the past few years. We even got a chance to visit a popular faucet. It is amazing how much this community sacrificed in order to make sure clean water in each house was available to all. It was just a few years ago that the residents had to grab their buckets and pails to get water. Now they are on their way to providing water to every person in the community.

--Ashlee and Amanda :)