Keep GLOWing

Wow! Time is really getting away from me. Only seven months left in Belize! Ay yi yi! So much has been happening, I don't know where to begin catching you up on life in Santa Teresa. One thing I'm most excited about is the GLOW Club. I had four girls go to camp last year so I was a little discouraged when we weren't meeting regularly once the school year started again. We had a hard time organizing ourselves for the first meeting, but once together, found a focus. The girls were interested in visiting a neighboring village so I told them in order to go they must raise money. I knew I would not be in the village the following weekend but told the girls I knew they could sell cakes by themselves. Which they did!! I was so proud of them. Every Saturday of February we sold cakes and let me tell you, there girls are entrepreneurs, coming up with ideas of other things to sell since the people might get tired of cake. They even had the idea of asking for donations from the tourists that come on Wednesdays (sadly,this was vetoed by the Chairman of the Village Council) and brought up to me wanting to fund raise at the football marathon that happened this past Tuesday. Go girls! We have decided though that every Saturday is quite much, so instead we'll fund raise every other week, but will still meet the other Saturdays for activities such as playing at the field, picking up trash, and assisting elders. Oh, and thy are pretty much planning their own trip to San Benito Poite, things they want to do, what they want to learn, transportation, food, lodging, etc. The expense won't be too great so we might be able to send a couple girls to Camp GLOW again in Cayo (this year each girl needs to raise $100) and or course in my mind we'll make enough money to start a scholarship fund for girls going to high school. Talk about empowerment! But of course, our first purchase, other than ingredients to make the cakes we well, will be a football for the club to have as their own. I hope the girls know how proud I am of them.