Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Visiting AMIGOS Projects

I spent yesterday visiting four AMIGOS projects with the Granada/Rivas staff. This picture is of two volunteers in Los Angeles (Emma, one of my students, is second from the left), their supervisor, the Granada/Rivas project director and the daughter of the house that the volunteers live in. In the background is the school where the volunteers teach, along with the playground/soccer field/cow pasture.

In total I toured four towns and met ten volunteers. I was able to see the results of their ongoing projects and even see some of them in action teaching classes. The Granada/Rivas staff and volunteers are amazing. They are so professional and enthusiastic about their work. Just in the four towns that I visited the volunteers are painting schools, installing locks, teaching classes, building a latrine, painting a ball court, and working almost daily in health centers. This is just what I could see in a day, as I know they are doing more formal and informal projects as well. Tomorrow I am going to tour Rivas projects with a supervisor and the assistant project director, so more to come.