I was waiting inside Dallas airport, sitting on one of the billion chairs their have for us to wait for the flight. After being bored for about three hours, probably going through magazines and checking out some e-mails, they finally called us for boarding and, in the boarding line, there were this bunch of guys waiting on the line too. Surprisingly, two of them, turned and asked me something –I don’t remember exactly what their question was – but I remember we started talking. It turned out that they were coming to Argentina in a hunting trip, and they have also been hunting with us before.

So, after talking to Tom, he finally ended up coming to visit us and to hunt with us. That was the way I was introduced to Trinity Oaks and what they do to help and support people in America. So let me tell you a bit more about this non- profit organization.

Trinity Oaks uses hunting, fishing, and outdoor activities to give back and make a difference in the lives of others. Its programs and services are for underserved populations such as veterans, youth, terminally ill and disabled; who benefit immensely from the outdoors, but otherwise would not be able to afford the experience. 

This organization was founded on the premise that active participation in the outdoors is a powerful, healing, and fundamentally life-changing experience. Trinity Oaks’ mission is to use hunting, fishing and outdoor activities to give back and make a meaningful impact on the lives of others. For decades, we have known of the philosophical shift that outdoor activities cause within those who participate in them and how that profoundly impacts the wellness of our society. Through its’ mission programs, Trinity Oaks is able to impact thousands of people who otherwise would not be able to experience the outdoors.

Now that I talked about this amazing organization, I can go on with the story.

Tom came to San Javier Lodge in 2015 with a group of eleven people.

After a couple of days in which we had been doing some mixed bag hunting and fishing, we raised money and put a bunch of dollars together to buy many school supplies for a school called “Escuela 430 Jose de San Martin” that is located 2 hours away from Santa Fe city, in a small town called Colonia Dolores. So, in the middle of nowhere, there were these kids, in the only school in town, studying and having lunch in there too every day and trying to get some preparation for life.

For kids like this who grew up in small towns like Colonia Dolores, going to Santa Fe city is like discovering the moon, like getting inside a rocket and leave earth directly to the moon, so it was a very nice feeling to be helping these kids and to be supporting them for when they get older, too.

One of the days with this amazing group of hunters, we took the afternoon off and filled our trucks in with as many school supplies as we could buy. Pens, pencils, folders, notebooks, rubbers, pairs of scissors, many little bottles of glue, everything a kid needs whenever he goes to school. We also managed to buy equipment for the school in general, not just for the kids.

When we got there, we were very welcomed by the Principal and some of the teachers that were working at that moment. They also showed us all the classrooms and every single corner of that building. It is a school that has the government support and that is also in very good conditions for the precariousness it has around. The classrooms were super clean and a great general upkeep of the building.

The teachers and the kids were very pleased to see unknown people helping them and visiting them, not just because of the supplies we brought, but for the company and the human warm we caused by going there and getting to know them better.

It was a super successful visit, and I can say that now we have a special connection or bound with this people, which we hope to get to visit again next year.

The kids, in sign of gratitude, made many drawings and works of arts that Tom and the group took home with them as a remainder of the help they brought to this incredible kids.

This little report does nothing but tell what moves us and what we want to do from Pointer Outfitters and Soaring Argentina to make some help happen.

So remember, the more we are, the more help we can provide.

Pablo Aguiló

Director

Pointer Outfitters