La Ceiba is Living on $2 a Day to Reach our $10000 Goal!
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This post was written by admin on February 26, 2009
To agree with Hart, sorry we haven’t updated in a while.
Things at La Ceiba are going full-speed and shifting at the same time. We now have a long-term SHH volunteer working with us on the ground in Siete, visiting the women and following up on their solidarity groups. We’re figuring out how to make La Ceiba sustainable, both in Honduras and on this end. Christine is going through the surveys, inputting all sorts of data that will be incredible. Hart is working on creating a strategic plan, Lucy has joined our team, Melanie’s finding new grants and I’m getting ready to launch our 2000/$5 Challenge and the Newsletter update…
It’s really incredible to be able to be a part of this. Spending another week with the women in Siete de Abril reaffirms the reasons why we’re engaged in this project in the first place. How often does a person get to make a radical and distinct impact in another persons life?
Expect a Newsletter to come out in the next week, which will give you a better and less scattered idea of the week on the ground and our future plans. For now, though, I’ll leave you with an excerpt from my journal that I wrote our second to last day in Honduras: голова болит секс
“I was so excited about the ceremony, my botched Spanish and all. I loved it when Shin talked about the symbolism of the tree and I really do love the slogan we finally decided on (which is so much better than anything we came up with in F’burg). Mantener Commuidades y Realizar Cambios. (Support Community and Acheive Change) It fits us well.
I almost can’t believe we’ve given out these loans (can’t process it quite yet.) It’s just really hard to fathom right now— what must the women be thinking? Like Selma, Reina, Albertina, Suyapa, Josefa, Nelly… I got to interview Suyapa before the ceremony; she was incredibly nervous and afraid. I was so glad she was honest and admitted that she wasn’t exactly sure what we was doing. I hope I pumped up her solidarity group, and gave her some confidence as well. I remember doing a lot of reading last year about microfinance that talked about how the women were often timid and lack self-confidence. Thankfully we have some wonderfully confident women (like Selma and Natalia) to encourage the others, but I still think it’s kind of a big step for someone to step out and say to them, “No, really, you CAN run a business, you CAN manage money on your own. I don’t care if you are poor or a woman, you CAN.” Not that I said it in so many words. Regardless, though, I’m not sure if she felt any better after our conversation, but one can only hope that the nerves make her manage her money wisely, but not deter her from being a good entrepreneur.
I think it’s going to take a while to process this whole experience, even if it is my fourth time here. Who would’ve guessed four years ago that I’d be where I am now? And how unfathomably terrific, and crazy, and instructing, and good this has been. But, I guess now I don’t just mean Honduras and the loans, but everything else in my life, too.”
Thanks for all your support.
This post was written by Katie on February 12, 2009