June 30- July 7

 

It just hasn’t been the same since the Go-Global students left. As mentioned in the previous blog post we had a total of 8 projects unofficially approved and have been waiting on the official document to get the legal work started.  The work, which hasn’t been nearly as much, has also been much less glamourous the last little while. When there is work concerning the future projects, it’s usually creating excel templates and/or importing them into folders and laying the OneDrive infrastructure for the new Danper projects.

This past Friday we received the official approval of projects from Wasatch. Tomorrow Elena will meet with the engineers and directors of Danper for the final review and adjustment of terms. We will be giving the participants the good, or bad, news later this week after the final sign-off.  It has surly been a long couple of weeks for them.

We are still having some difficulty as far as payment is concerned on a couple of loans. With both the Carpentaria and the small dairy farm, we may resort to liquidation. The Carpenteria seems to be a perpetual loan nightmare that spans across not just months, but years.  It has great potential however, it has not been managed well; neither the loan, nor the business.  The dairy farm also has potential, but they consistently put their obligation to us on the back burner. They are focused on growing the business, but they don’t understand how to separate their personal finances from the business finances, and completely ignore the financial ramifications of their decisions. With the current situation, they just seem to be overextending, despite our weekly meetings.

There is still quite a bit of mystery surrounding how the Employment Center/ Self Sufficiency Group will receive funding and how it will be managed. At this point no one seems to know what to do. We were able to have a couple meeting between Wasatch and Juan Leyva, but there is still a lot to be done.  We feel in order to move forward we just need to buckle down, and start spending some serious time hashing out the details and getting the ball rolling.  Hopefully this will give us an opportunity to use some of the entrepreneurial skills we have been teaching the students.

On a more light-hearted and less work-related note, Vanessa (Danpers new Social Responsibility intern from Switzerland) Decided to go Check out some of the sites around Trujillo. For anyone coming in the future, Huaca de la Luna and Show Del Caballo Peruano de Paso, are pretty cool. We also learned that we have access to the roof of our apartment and I took a little time to capture some fun night shots with a super wide-angle lens. Because it would be rather boring to look at pictures of us doing excel sheets, the photos this week don't have much to do with work. Hopefully anyone reading can find it in their heart to forgive me.