Tuesday at Mayan Families

Well, yesterday unbelievably, exactly at 8am. the electricity went off all over town.

With no hope of any work to be done on the computers, we decided to tackle the bodega ...(warehouse...which is actually our old house ) . With about 10 of us taking on this task we were able to sort out which toys should go to the pre-schools, which toys could be used for Christmas and clean out the place. We sorted out shoes and tried to find pairs for shoes that seemed to have lost their mate, we sorted soccer gear into teams to give to the San Jorge school, the Tierra Linda school and a few others who may not need a whole team.

We found that we have no soap or shampoos left so if anyone is coming or sending a shipment...and have access to any of these items...we would love them. We have been giving out a lot of soap's and shampoos to the elderly, to the orphan care and to the pre-schools....so we have finally run dry. All the little soaps that they have at hotels and the small courtesy bottles always come in so handy...so if you are travelling , please think about bringing them home with you! We can put them to good use.

We also had a group of women from Concepcion come yesterday for micro loans for the first time.

We had already interviewed these women, most of them single mothers or widows and we are very happy to be able to help them with a micro loan and hope that this will give them a hand up with their families. They were indeed a very poor group of women, many of the children did not have shoes, and we were fortunate that we had shoes for most of them.  

We also had a new intern arrive yesterday...Corey ..who will be with us for several months.