"Dam" Rocks

On Friday, we woke up early and went to the Rincon Claro farm. They're suffering from a water infrastructure problem, which often leaves them without water during the dry season. We asses that their dam was too small, and the irrigation system needed to be repaired, so we went to work to fix these problems! Half of the students began collecting large rocks from the farm and loading them in the back of a truck, while the rest of the students dug out space to lay new PVC pipes. After loading the truck was full of rocks, it drove to a spot about 10 minutes away and unloaded. The students then walked to this spot and began transporting the rocks down a long pathway to the water reservoir. The entire process took us about 3 hours, without our help, it would have taken 2 months.

After completing the work on the farm, the students returned to the school for lunch and workshop preparation. We delivered the business communication skills workshop first, which was met with much enthusiasm! The farmers enjoyed the interactivity of the workshop by role-playing sales scenarios. After this workshop, we held a sales and negotiation workshop to teach the farmers about the various markets that exist and how to negotiate the best price for their products. We had an interactive component during this workshop as well, where we divided into pairs and practiced negotiating the sales price. We concluded the afternoon with a brief English lesson and a successful game of "futbol!"