Jose Abreu – Director José Manuel Abreu was born in San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic. He studied elementary school and secondary school at Colegio Evangelico Lucille Rupp in San Juan de la Maguana. For college, he studied Business Administration at Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Since he was a child he always loved to do...

For many people, the start of a new year means making resolutions or setting new goals.  For Joel Alcantara and Anny Ramirez, 2014 started with much more… the building of their new home. Joel, who currently works at a bank and is studying to be an agronomist, and Anny, both a stay-at-home mom and student,...

When we arrived at the build site each day, we weren’t exactly sure what we would be working on.  Building the walls, laying the floor, painting - each day was something different. One thing remained constant though, and that was the wonderful lunch made by the women of Lavapie. Every day around noon the volunteers,...

For most of us, starting a house project means spending hours at the hardware store and purchasing tools and gadgets to make the project easier and more time efficient. When we arrived at the Cambiando Vidas building site, it surprised many of the volunteers that we would be building an entire house in just four...

A community is only as good as the people in it, and this week the residents of Lavapie proved they have one of the richest, most-welcoming communities in existence. As the bus of volunteers pulled up to Lavapie on January 5, many of us were nervous. No one knew what to expect of the location,...

The iMedia class of 2014 at Elon University was part of an extremely special project with Cambiando Vidas this year. Not only did we get to be part of the build for the 51st house, we were on this trip to gather content for the redesign of the Cambiando Vidas website. Along with a Rutgers...