For the past few days, Angela and I have been helping the women complete an order of 42 samples for a company. The company had specific requests for certain pieces, as well as lengths for each necklace and bracelet so we had to ensure that everything was to their desire so they will hopefully place an order in the coming weeks! One of the things we've really come to learn from the women so far in our time here is that they would really like to increase the amount of orders they receive each year. For this reason, we were really strict with them when it came to completing these samples because we really would like for them to receive more orders. Hopefully everything will go according to plan and this will work out!
Last night, we went to the DHL office to ship the samples to the states. While we were there watching the woman bubble wrap and duct tape the package SHUT, we looked outside where a torrential downpour, thunder, and lightening had started! Within 10 minutes the streets were completely flooded and everyone outside was looking for shelter. We decided to brave mother nature and head to the car so we could go get dinner. Within a minute we were soaked. On top of that, we were standing ankle deep in water in the street! It was quite an experience. The best part was that about an hour or so later after eating dinner, we walked outside where the rain had stopped and streets were completely clear of water!! It was completely eye opening, as we had never seen anything like it. Unfortunately, or fortunately for my camera, I do not have any photos of the experience.
Now that the sample order is completed, we are going to start administering the Nest business curriculum to the women and begin taking the annual Nest loan survey. The biggest obstacle is getting all the women together. This is a persisting problem the cooperative has had since its inception a couple years ago, so we are hoping to get all the women together and really educate them on the Nest process and why we are here. We hope that if we continuously emphasize this, they will begin to see what the entire mission is all about and get on board. In the meantime, though, we know this is a large hurdle for us. However, we are hopeful that we will get over this!
Unfortunately I don't have any photos this time as I forgot to put them on my flash drive before heading to the internet cafe. But, I promise extra photos next time!
Last night, we went to the DHL office to ship the samples to the states. While we were there watching the woman bubble wrap and duct tape the package SHUT, we looked outside where a torrential downpour, thunder, and lightening had started! Within 10 minutes the streets were completely flooded and everyone outside was looking for shelter. We decided to brave mother nature and head to the car so we could go get dinner. Within a minute we were soaked. On top of that, we were standing ankle deep in water in the street! It was quite an experience. The best part was that about an hour or so later after eating dinner, we walked outside where the rain had stopped and streets were completely clear of water!! It was completely eye opening, as we had never seen anything like it. Unfortunately, or fortunately for my camera, I do not have any photos of the experience.
Now that the sample order is completed, we are going to start administering the Nest business curriculum to the women and begin taking the annual Nest loan survey. The biggest obstacle is getting all the women together. This is a persisting problem the cooperative has had since its inception a couple years ago, so we are hoping to get all the women together and really educate them on the Nest process and why we are here. We hope that if we continuously emphasize this, they will begin to see what the entire mission is all about and get on board. In the meantime, though, we know this is a large hurdle for us. However, we are hopeful that we will get over this!
Unfortunately I don't have any photos this time as I forgot to put them on my flash drive before heading to the internet cafe. But, I promise extra photos next time!
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