Work Work Work

I would love to start this blog by congradulating my brother Ronny (The other Intern posted with me ^) for obtaining a position with Nexos Voluntarios as a Projects Manager following the completion of our contract. My last post mentioned all that I have learnt from him and now the proof is in the pudding. The man began his pre-departure training with an objective to become a project manager and 3 months later....SUCCESS!


Ok, now time to talk about our projects a little. These past few weeks have been extremely busy. Especially with only three of us working here (and the odd visit from our CEO Maricarmen). The projects have been progressing well and now require even more attention to details. This can cause an overwhelming feeling at times but at the end of each day we feel very proud of our hard work.

Our Research Project
At NeVo we have really been working at our research project using outcome mapping as a tool to measure progress. We contracted a company named PAR to aid us in the concepts of outcome mapping which helped out alot. Following a weekend seminar with the exchanging of many ideas, and thoughts of each project we were ready to start with the first steps of our OM project.

Kuchi Wasi

We have started the nutrition program this past week! What a feeling of success to see the hard work put in by so many volunteers actually reach a milestone. We began holding capacity training workshops with school mothers and fathers, and developed a nutrition plan for a month and a schedule for 2 mothers to help cook per day. We are feeding the children of Villa Marcelo three times a week. We are now discovering that cooking for all these children will take more than 2 mothers at a time. We all work very hard to have this meal ready by the lunch hour. Buying food for the children even poses challanges hahaha. Ronny and I sure get a goood workout in carrying this. The implementation of this project would not be possible without or donations from our a American group who held a fundraiser. We have enough money for a few months but need to look for more sources of income from anyone who wishes to contribute.

A new tongue twister: Era una gata ética, pelética, pelenpenpética, pelada, peluda, pelenpenpuda, tuvo 7 gatos éticos, peléticos, pelenpenpeticos, pelados, peludos, pelenpenpudos.