Would you like to make a tax deductible donation to my future projects?

Hello Fellow Blog Readers:

To those of you who are interested, I will be setting up an account that will allow you to make tax deductible donations to the projects I will be working on my second year. I will be spending my first year working on education. Then in my second year, I will determine families that are in need of a project in order for them to better their health. Projects could include, an improved cook stove, latrine, cement floor, water storage system, or drainage system. Criteria for recipients of projects will also be based on families dedication to the educational health talks that I will be giving and how great their desire is to better their health. More details to come concerning cost break down as it becomes available.

I am giving you a heads up so that you can start putting money away for this now if you so desire, maybe you have something you can give up and instead of spending the money you can send it towards a good cause. I will be setting up a fund when the time gets closer to begin my projects.

Monday, November 29, 2010

A few updates

So I spent the Thanksgiving holiday at the Lake. It has to be one of my favorite places so far. It is quite a change in climate to go from my site to the Lake...a whole lot sunnier and warmer. The place I like to say at is also a culture change too with English speaking owners and the only Guatemalans are the women that work in the kitchen. It's such a relaxing place and eating a more substantial diet is always a welcome change. They had a Thanksgiving dinner last Thursday that was my main reason for going out there. They had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, veggies and pumpkin pie. It was all delicious, not like my mom makes but good nonetheless. I spent the weekend out there and hoped to climb the volcano in San Pedro but one of my fellow PCV's that I went with got sick and was down and out for a day so we shall be back another time to accomplish that hike. I guess it's about a 3 hour hike up....can't wait until I can check that out.

On another note, this Wednesday is World AIDS day so to celebrate, my sitemate and I are giving the HIV/AIDS workshop put together by Peace Corps Guatemala. We are heading out to one of my communities tomorrow to give it to the groups I work with there and also any others that want to join. On the official day, Wednesday, we are giving the workshop twice at the health center to whoever wants to come and I have invited the groups from my other community and my sitemate has invited most if not all of her groups. We are hoping for a good turn out so we can help get the word out about HIV/AIDS. It's very much a taboo subject here and we would like to break through that. We are planning on doing a condom demonstration too so that should be beneficial in terms of family planning and preventing the spread of sexually transmitted infections. Pray that the workshops may go well and that those in attendance may glean a lot of information.

Hope you had a great Monday!

Kelsey
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