tennents a great English beer . . .

A month now in La Prusia. The squirrels are black and white, the oranges are green and I eat more fruit in a day here than I do in a month in Scotland. Got some charity chat this week;

It´s true that Casa´s de la Esperanza must be one of the few charities that it doesn't charge money volunteers to stay. The money is made from companies sponsoring the project, and people occasionally donate. So there´s no shortage of the volunteer, and long term ones too. . A 62 year old Canadian is even here but rents a room in Granada. He did say to me this week that English beer is terrible because of going into a shop in Manchester and buying Tennents, which was pretty funny . . The point in the charity was initially to build homes for people so they could own land/property, but that´s just the tip of the iceberg. Then everyone needs jobs to pay back the charity for the homes, which are hard to find anywhere (like chicken and the egg situation). So thats the part where people get trained in construction skills (welding, diggers, etc..).

So the charity brought electricity and water to this area 5 years ago, but people still forage for dead wood for cooking in the forest. if no concrete homes were built maybe more forest would be chopped for timber squatter houses . . [Bought myself a hammock by the way, it is awesome] . . The people put in the time to build their own new houses but if they can't afford to pay the charity back through micro-business then the charity relies on donations too much . . [the original idea was influenced by Muhammad Yunus the economist who gave loans for poor entrepreneurs from his bank and stayed solvent, and got noble peace prize] . . The charity has a welding school that starts soon, and along with the drivers of the two mini-diggers (that get plenty of work) [I want one], more of the community should have jobs. . ok enough . . education, etc but I know less about that. .

My BACK is quite stiff, we mixed about 20 bags of cement on Friday to do the floor and now a different guy is coming to do the roof. .





There´s snakes here saw a big one yesterday and found chopped one, awesome reptile. . .and also an evil looking spider, which you can compare your house spiders to if you get scared.

Any comments or questions are much appreciated from this side!