Good news!!!
And finally the government sent the money for the project!! After almost two months waiting the government sent the money and now the project has new energy.
Last week HUMANA sent someone from Africa´s Head Quarter to control our work and to decided if HUMANA was going to help the project with some money or not. The guy is call Charles.
He is from Zimbabwe and so he just speak English wich make things a little more difficult because in Cacimbas none speaks English, so we have to translate all the conversation.
Charles looked very impress with our work and admit that it was a big mistake not to send money before to help the project. Now he was here and if he believes that things were running as it should be then he will ask HUMANA to help us.
It seems that he liked our job because three days ago HUMANA decided to send some money…. but as always HUMANA is late. Now, the money from the government arrive and so we don´t need anymore HUMANA´s money.
To me it looks like something that can not be. HUMANA can´t say that this is a HUMANA´s project if they only put their name and logo. They let the project without money for two months, putting on risk all the work that has been done until now. The project has just begin and so it needs to be trustfully. The mistake was big, and it shouldnn´t happen again, but Mauro, our project leader, manage the situation very well and so, even though the project was out of money things were running.
Now thing are better, the money arrives, HUMANA is satisfied with our work and we are working very hard.
Last week I started singing classes in Pedra Solta, I had 8 students and it was a very nice class. I start to prepare to the final work for my theater students and it looks like is gonna be a really good thing, I choose as a topic: children´s rights.
The vegetable gardens are going good, now we are getting more help from the coordinators and we continue with the work related with the free market.
Last weekend we had a meeting with the mayor were she compromised to help us with infrastructure issues that are to expensive to be done by the project.
This week we went to the Mayor’s office to talk about a cistern to Sao Bento. They are desperate because they run out of water so they really need the cistern. the good notice is that the mayor say yes, and they already constructing it.
Now we are planning our next projects: water filters and chickens to the families. about the vegetable gardens we need to solve some problems with ants, they really like the garden!
