Maria and I were thrilled to be part of the inauguration of the school in San Jose Lagrimas. She, Christiane and I represented A Better World at the ceremony and day long fiesta. Maria has gotten to know the community intimately over the past few months and shared the deep meaning this school has for them. It was a remarkable day.
Reina
This is Reina. She volunteers with the Red Cross and was the chief planner for the eye clinics. Over 650 people had eye exams and there are around 500 people out there that have “new” eye glasses. We had a celebration to end it all last night with a few tear jerking moments hearing some of the special stories of the people we helped.
The "ugly" glasses were culled out.
But, you should see the smattering of vintage eye glasses Christiane kept.
It was absolutely amazing! The “inauguration” of Carrisalito school. The Superintendent of Education, the Mayor, the Director of Education….a TV station were there.
There were speeches and dancers. I presented the sign on behalf of A Better World
I’m all meeting’d out. Last night Telma’s daughter Belssy and her husband asked to meet with me about a new little barrio on the edge of Copan. 11 families of single moms with plastic houses, no water or latrines. I’ve asked for more information and will consider a proposal at some point to help this little community.
This is a gathering of chicken interested people……Chely the World Vision director, Adin from El Chilar (the instigator of the chicken project) and Trinidad (the leader of Los Arcos community). After much discussion Adin and I think it may be a good idea to move the chicken project to another community where the people would be willing to become involved. We have identified the things we would change to make the project sustainable. The first step will be to ask Bryan Butler to travel out to this community to share information about the viability of this venture, info about feeding etc.