February 10th update

February 10th update

  
Sheila returns a week from today (yahoo) and 
our friends Archie and Marilyn, Dru and Helene 
arrive in Antigua on Monday, I am looking forward 
to their visit. 

The week they are here we all work with some parent volunteers to do the bottle construction part of the classroom in Chacap. In three weeks the kids will move into a beautiful new classroom. Hasta Luego Brian

 One of the beautiful organizers that SUDEN  delivered to the
daycares to store toys, toothbrushes ,musical instruments, etc.

Here, Suzanne (in yellow)  who runs SUDEN, is

delivering toys, blankets and warm sweatshirts

to one of the daycares. What a gift. Thanks.

February 6th update

Here are some photos of the new classroom being built in Panyebar. We have had to use block in the first half since it is below grade for most of it. The upper half will be built using the plastic bottle method that we used last year. The teachers have organized the bottle collection with the parents and next week we will start this phase of the project. This will be a substancial addition to this Daycare, the kids were crowded into such a small place and they had to walk to a different location to eat. Once this is finished a kitchen will built in one of the old classrooms which is right beside this building.

Our second classroom which is in Chacap is well under way, in fact the super structure will be completed by Feb 8. This had to be built because their old adobe classroom was destroyed by the earth quake they had in November. Dru, Helene. Archie and Marilyn will be doing the bottle work on this one.

                     

January 19th report

 We made it out to a couple of centres yesterday where we will be building new bottle classrooms.
Brian and Mateo measured for the new buildings and made arrangements for the ground to be
prepared for building over the weekend. Kids and staff were excited to see us back. The tire
play structures are getting a lot of use- the kids love having a place to climb up and slide down.
We will be quite busy managing 2 big constructions involving mothers and volunteers this year.
Pictures will come soon.
I have contacted the daycares on this side of the lake , assessed their greatest needs, purchased
and delivered much needed supplies this week. Today, I prepared teacher handouts and put together materials for Valentine's Day to go out to each daycare before I return to Canada on Monday to await the arrival of my newest grandchild.
More purchasing of  shoes and clothes, small toys and play mats on Saturday over in Pana, then meetings scheduled for Sunday. After that, Brian is in charge for a few weeks. Wish him well.  All the best- Sheila