Friday

Hello again,
Here is the latest...
We went to meet with the local Indian community's catholic priest to see if we can integrate their (measly) production capacity to the supply chain of the school. I was saddened to see that the people there were not too willing to think that they could also be part of the value chain here, in the sense that they were more interested in getting yet another hand-out.
Everything in their village was built by the government, NGOs or churches. They have been receiving for so long that the first thing that the priest wanted to know was weather or not we were going to build him a school house. He was none too pleased to find out that we only wanted to work together to get more jobs for the people there... no building for free. Here is an image of a purse that I bought made entirely of seeds. These are made by hand here, for local sale and I think that the students can work with the Indians and us on some sort of an export business model.
Here we are with an Indian leader, the priest and Allison:I have been working more on the idea for the kids to sell in threes when they go to sell. Here is an image of the concept:

I hope they like the idea and are willing to try it.