Reassesments

   This week we were all sorts of excited to get started up with our classes, we already have the list of the people who have been accepted so all we needed to do was set a time and place and we were good to go. Unfortunately, there has been a few problems with some of our past loan recipients that have caused another set back. Elena, our supervisor, and the leaders at DanPer have all been looking at recent occurrences and have decided that now would be a good time to reassess our loan policy and rewrite a few of our rules and guidelines. This really is a smart thing to do because there we a couple things that really did need to be changed, so after several meeting this week we have somewhat come to a conclusion as to what the changes will be and what our new requirements will be and how exactly our loaning process will be.

   We were able to go talk with a few of our projects this week, one of which was Bertha. Bertha has had her internet business up and running for a little more than a month now and is already seeing the fruits of it! Her sales were great and she kept her costs very low. We were able to sit down with her and decide her payment plan as well and she will be making her first payment here within the next couple of days. Bertha and her family are extremely excited and we are very proud of her as well and the great effort she is making to make here business successful.

   Our first class presentation is all ready and we are ready to teach! this Wednesday should be our first class and we are super excited for it! we cant wait to finally do what we were sent here to do which is teach. We have been set back a little bit but we are going to make the most out of our time and teach all we can in the time we have.

   We had a fun weekend as well. We visited a place we had heard about called the Laguna of Conache. After about an hour on two different busses we were able to arrive to this really cool little secluded body of water where the sun was beaming and we could take it easy. We ate a delicious water side meal and finished it off with some sandboarding on a nearby dune! It was a really neat experience for both of us.