A lot has happened this past week, the two biggest things being the move into our office and the arrival of two amazing volunteers who have come to help us. We were originally under the impression that we would be moving into our office at the beginning of July. However, after waiting for the
landlord to put on a new roof, put in a new window, re-do the wiring, paint, fix the leaky new roof, paint again, install the internet, commission a carpenter to make tables, fix the leaky roof yet again…we were finally able to move in last week. And besides the occasional power outages (which are normal for Copan) it’s great to finally have a space to ourselves that we can use for work, storage and hanging out with kids.
In celebration of our new office we bought 100 oranges – for 60 Lempiras (about 3 dollars).
New Arrivals…
Last Friday our first two full-time volunteers arrived to help us run our Afterschool Program for the next couple months. The program will run until the end of the school year in November.
Kourtney is from New Jersey, but spent the last year living and working in Mexico. Alex is a former UP Vancouver intern on her way to medical school. Both have a lot of experience working with kids, are eager to start and will be huge assets to our team for the few months that they will be here.
Our first afterschool program is going to start September 16th in an area called Nueva Esperanza, one of the areas in which we did our pilot program in February. The community has a lot of needs, but the people seem to really be on board with our program. There is a lot of excitement here as we get ready for next week.
Is that your office space??? Love the blue.
ps … who took the photo that’s on top of your site?? Super fantastic!