All over the world

We have a traveling staff. Elena left for Russia last week, Olga returned from Russia today, Ralitza made it back from Bulgaria a few days ago, and before Christmas Carmela arrived from from Costa Rica where she had been doing a Spanish immersion program. Flavia visited Brazil, Randa was in Lebanon, Stephanie is in London and our volunteer coordinator Carol Field is hiking through India.

Two reasons for all this travel. The first is that Bulgaria, Russia, Lebanon, and Brazil are the birthplaces of the staff who continue to visit family there. The second reason is that because so many of our staff live and work at Raphael House, it makes sense to encourage staff to take a month off every other year, sometimes six weeks. Carmela has lived and worked at Raphael House for 23 years, so after her six weeks in Costa Rica , she came back ready to speak some serious Spanish, ready for action.

One of the reasons we have staff who work here for year after year is that we want them to do something besides work. Come back refreshed.