On Monday, we toured the DanPer facility and learned about the production of artichokes, asparagus, mangoes, pimientos, and salsa. We also met Alejandro, the director of Sembrando Futuro. We'll be working with him more to evaluate the program's success and promote growth. At the end of the day we got to take a tour of the plant and see just how they process the asparagus and get it ready to be packaged and shipped, it was pretty sweet!
We got to start working with a few of our clients from last phase as well, on of which is named Bertha. Bertha, received a loan to make modifications to her home to prepare it for an internet business she wants to run in her neighborhood. The interns before us helped her with the construction part and we got to help her find, buy, and install her new computers in her house! It was amazing to see the before and after pictures. Bertha and her daughter were so proud of what they had accomplished, and their joy was infectious. We were grateful to be able to help them!
We spent a lot of time getting to know several of our clients this week. We made trip to Huancaquito to visit the Panaderia and we also went to Moche to do small business checkups with several businesses, all of which seem to be doing well and making great progress with their businesses.
This week in Peru is the celebration of spring so we had a fun night in the Plaza de Armas listening to musical groups play and we got to see a huge group of queens from the Lions Club come through the plaza. It was a super fun night and it was cool to see other Americans in the celebration who we could speak English too!
We love Trujillo and the work we've been able to do with SEED so far! We start teaching our classes next week so we have lots of preparation work to do this week in order to be ready for that experience.
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