Spread The Word!!

  This week was full of waking up early and taking busses to different parts of Trujillo. We focused 100% this week on spreading the word about our program  to the largest amount of workers possible, not only at the main plant here in Trujillo, but also out in the fields hours away in Mochik, and Huancaquito. It was tiring but very rewarding when we got to explain the program and watch people gain interest in involving themselves.

  Much of our time was spent at the main plant here in Trujillo. Because most workers enter the plant before 7:00am, we had to wake up super early and get to the plant so we could address them before the entered to work. Elena really did most of the speaking, but we often times were pulled aside to further explain and answers questions to people who were truly interested.

  We got to participate in what would be considered a work party in the fields with all the workers. They had finished their work on a part of the field for this season and were celebrating with music, food, soccer and gifts. We only took a few minutes of their time to announce the program and then let them get back to their festivities.

  Because so much of our time was spent on the diffusion of the program, we didn't get to make a lot of personal business visits, but we did make time for a few that we saw were very necessary. We focused on two that have yet to make their payments for this past month so that we could find out what was happening and for the most part it was just everyday things that kept them from paying and we were able to solve the problems.

  It was a busy week, but a week full of necessary work. We are happy to have the program announces, and now this week will go through the filtering process and will choose those who will take part in the classes!

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  As for fun this week.. We went to the largest mud-built city in the entire world called Chan Chan. It was cool to see and very interesting to learn about the culture and history of the Chimú.