Promoters, Tallers and Kittens

This week was a bit mad. It started with me trying to prepare my charla for my first Promoter meeting. I found a group of women who are super pila about becoming promoters in my caserio of Pasac. I am very excited and hope they keep their enthusiasm up.

I started it by having them identify what they thought the dangers or the areas in need of change where they live, in three levels of the community. 1. the house, 2. Pasac and 3. San Vicente. It's good for them to feel like they're in control and making the decisions, because who am I, an outsider, to come in and start telling them the things they need to change within their lives. So I hope they got something out of that, and the next step is (once we've identified what needs to be changed) to start making changes.

Vamos a ver.

In addition I made a trip up to Kiki's site, San Bartolo Aguas Calientes, to help with a domestic abuse taller (taller = workshop), with a woman's group in one of her Aldeas. It went really well, and was totally worth going, even if we didn't have a ride back and had to walk for about 2 hours in the heat. (Peace Corps!).

Anyway, drama upon return, as the kitten climbed over Ferney's brilliant wall up to his roof and escaped. He was gone for about 24 hrs before we found him/her locked in a house under construction across the street. He didn't make it easy for us to get him either, but he's back and safe so that's good! In fact I'm watching him torment a chicken outside as we speak. All is back to normal.