Monday greeted us with good news, a family in California, will be donating funds to pay the salaries of two new teachers. This is very exciting for us and comes at a crucial time, both in the children’s development and for the 6 week training our teachers will be involved in during October and November. Many of you know Luvia who works with Semillas de Amor, she is my right hand person. Well, Luvia loves kids and loves to teach so she will be attending the teacher training and working as a teacher, teaching the kids English beginning in late November.

In the next few weeks I will post more information on our new education program and a list of supplies we will be needing if anyone would like to help out. We really want to be able to open our school to children in the community but that takes resources and is our goal. It is exciting to open an “official” school.

For those of you who might be wondering if we ever got our electricity, the answer is no. The Empresa Electrica has made our lives a nightmare with requests for one document after another. They clearly do not want us to have the right of way. What they do want is for us to pay to bring posts all the way down the road from the nearest line. First, we don’t have the money for that and secondly why should we pay for everyone else’s electricity installment? We do not have that kind of money. It appears the that Empresa Electrica could care less and the legal department within that organization cares even less. If we had the funding we would have as much solar as possible but the upfront costs can be high. We have solar hot water heaters, we will have solar perimeter lighting (it will be here in a few weeks) and hopefully a solar pump that pumps water from the cistern to the home.

Our garden continues to grow and expand. The kids “polished off” 100 broccoli plants and continued to love broccoli. Our cabbage, cauliflower, peppers and lots of other veggies are sprouting up and getting ready for the kitchen. We are doing as much organic as possible. But it takes learning a new way in order to let go of the old ways. So as we search for new and better ways to grow our veggies we can let go of the toxic pesticides used so frequently in Guatemalan agriculture.

We are still in need of your support and appreciate the kindness and generosity of so many people. Without you, we would not be able to exist. To make a donation to Semillas de Amor please click on Save Semillas.
Thank you.

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