Getting by, with a little help from friends

Just like the song.

"Although you Rochestarians didn't all meet him, I want to also recognize Adam Davis who came from SUNY Geneseo to work on his own project with 4 Walls. He helped a young man named Pepe replace a huge, crumbling adobe wall and then donated new beams and rafters to replace some rotten ones over Pepe and his mother´s kitchen. Adam raised all the money himself and made a great contribution to 4 Walls. Thank you!!"

This came today via e-mail from Meghan Haslam, the Peace Corps volunteer in El Sauce who started the 4 Walls Project. Volunteers from Rochester and Arizona worked with her a few days while we were there and this is from an e-mail she sent them.

Adam indeed raised money for 2 walls — about $500 — through family, friends and his brothers of the Crows fraternity. Like all of the 4 Walls Projects, it was purely funded by people who banded together with a little to make a big difference.

I took this photo of Noel, Adam and Pepe Blanco a few hours before they finished the brick wall. I was pulling double duty with cameras — one for videos and one for pictures — so I could snap one of them looking at digital images of their work.