Our first trip to Holy Cross School was in April 2007. At that time, five tiny classrooms housed approximately 130 students (up from 64 the previous fall) and Ms. Rosalia was carting lunch to the children in a wheelbarrow from the hammock house across the street.
In the years since, each time we made our annual visit we were amazed at the growth in the number of students and also in the number and size of physical structures (large on-site kitchen, cafeteria, computer lab, composting toilets, dental lab, office space and a library in addition to 18 classrooms!).
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