Friday in Parana
Long day today. Six of us (Floyd, Justin, Doug, Justin's host Luis Carlos, Doug's host Luis Enrique, and Nalini hired a bus to take a two-plus hours trip to Cambara,the site of Rotary Vilas, a project of the Cambara Rotary Club and funded by the developer of the Bourbon Hotel chain here in Brazil.
The project contains 80 small two-room villas desinged for single women and their children and contains a school sponsored by the prefecture. They plan to add grades 5 and 6 plus a gymnasium. The kids do not have good supervision after their morning classes and get into trouble. No Boys and Girls Club here yet. After meeting the adminstrators and kids, we took up a collection amon the three of us and presented $100 Reais, about 60.00US as seed money for program for their PTO. We see it as program with a lot of potential to develop young lives in desparate situations.
Lunch as at a local Oriental restaurant. Got home in th evening in time for dinner and for me (Doug) long conversations about the economy, politics, business, and more.
The project contains 80 small two-room villas desinged for single women and their children and contains a school sponsored by the prefecture. They plan to add grades 5 and 6 plus a gymnasium. The kids do not have good supervision after their morning classes and get into trouble. No Boys and Girls Club here yet. After meeting the adminstrators and kids, we took up a collection amon the three of us and presented $100 Reais, about 60.00US as seed money for program for their PTO. We see it as program with a lot of potential to develop young lives in desparate situations.
Lunch as at a local Oriental restaurant. Got home in th evening in time for dinner and for me (Doug) long conversations about the economy, politics, business, and more.
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