| In February, the various projects began activities in earnest as the new school year got underway. The preschool project is again currently serving over 70 children, mainly in the barrios in the western outskirts of the city of Estelí, with a smaller number - 15 or so - attending the preschool on the main project site. The adult education programmes are now in their third week of classes with a total number of students similar to last year of about 350 including over 70 women from low income households who are able to study thanks to scholarships funded by our donors. |
 children in our Caperucita Roja pre-school |
 Alan turns a piece in the ceramic workshop |
In addition to our education, health, legal advice and social work programmes, the foundation also assists the "Christine King" Multi-Service cooperative with training and production programmes. The ceramic workshop is now well established and currently has two quite large orders. Also, the metal workshop is receiving requests from various customers, including the Porvenir organization which requested help to assemble a solar panel installation with our friend Robert Matthews. |
 Antonio creates an original figure from which to take a mould |
 Wilber Gutierrez drilling alignment holes in the steelwork for the Porvenir solar panels |
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Bob Matthews has done a great job training our welder Wilson Ordoñez in the fabrication of the metalwork necessary to install a quite weighty solar panel system. Bob has designed the system so that it can be manually adjusted to track the path of the sun through the day. This facility significantly increases the efficiency of the panels. We are very grateful to Bob for inviting us to cooperate in this project. |