Rural Communities

A major part of my work with Mpowering People involves traveling to several rural communities around León, meeting with groups of mothers to discuss their "plan de negocio", or projects for earning money for the year. This usually entails selling something, such as clothing, bread, or soup.

Here are pictures of our trip to Tamarindo:

Traveling by bus: "Bienvenidos a León"

Beautiful scenery

Road in Tamarindo

For the meeting, I created a few questions to discuss with the moms and was in charge of facilitating, which meant asking questions and writing down the responses. It was really hard! Not only was it difficult to understand all of what they were saying, but also to keep everyone on track!

We caught the last bus back to León

And took some silly photos together

Attempt #1

Attempt #2 (not much better)

In addition, we traveled to Ceiba for a meeting the other day, but failed for the second time to attend it!

The first attempt was on my first day of work, when it began to pour rain.

This time, we missed the main bus, took an alternative bus which dropped us off on the side of the road to the entrance into the community, hitched a ride with a semi-truck which dropped us off at a construction site, and for the next hour, unsuccessfully tried to hitch a ride to travel the 8km to the meeting location.

Boy, what a day!

Waiting on the side of the road, with plenty of time to kill. So hey, why not take a photo?

Can somebody please give us a ride???

More nice views of the countryside

The main road in Ceiba

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