5 year anniversary

Last night at our weekly volunteer meeting we celebrated our director´s 5 year anniversary of working with La Esperanza Granada. All of the current volunteers, about 30, were there, along with the handful of ayudantes and full time employees. Some teachers from the schools and other member of the community involved with our organization came to celebrate too. It was an impressive turnout and made me realize a little bit how much our organization is really doing and how many people or director, Pauline, is directing.

Pauline made a short speech about ¨all we have done¨ over the last 5 years and it was really an incredible list of accomplishments. Over 600 volunteers from all over the world have come to help, 17 new classrooms have been built, 6 schools renovated and hundreds of children tutored among many other things.

The speech reminds me of another conversation I had with Pauline about the growth of the program. When she arrived and took over, she lived and worked in one of our volunteer Houses called Las Casitas with all the other volunteers. Since that time we have expanded to 4 volunteer Houses within the neighborhood, an office stocked with computers and employees (that happens to be connected to my House), and last I checked Pauline is not living with a bunch of 18-25 year olds anymore.

It was an inspiring night to celebrate 5 very productive years.

Note: I updated my list of crazy things about Nicaragua as well.

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mls12 on May 26, 2010 from Granada, Nicaragua

from the travel blog: Volunteering with La Esperanza Granada in Granada, Nicaragua

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