A group of sailors from the USS Farragut participated in a two-day community relations project while the ship was in Montevideo, May 5-9. On Wednesday they worked at the Maruja boy's orphanage where they helped build a wall and recondition the facility. They also delivered a donation made under the Humanitarian Assitance Program consisting of a much needed clothes dryer, computer, fax/copier machine and bunkbed mattresses. On Thursday, May 8 the group procceded to paint the exterior of an eldery woman's home, pictured above, where they were joined by U.S. Ambassador Frank E. Baxter.

Ambassador Baxter joins sailors from the USS Farragut as they paint an elderly woman's home in Montevideo, May 8. This was one of the ship's community relations activities while in port.