Maggie, Present

So this week is flying and it is only Tuesday. Maggie, DHF founder and director, arrived bright and early yesterday to start her whirwind of a Cajamarca village bank work week. Maggie started her visit by a wheelbarrow suitcase ride to the countryside art pad (The kiddos loaded up her travel suitcase on the wheelbarrow for easy travel to the front door). She is staying with us in the country, which makes for lots of early morning and late night work opportunities.

It is always so good to have Maggie come down she brings loads of positive energy and pushes me to brainstorm, think big and make adjustments or changes in the programming part of what I do. Today we met up with our new village banking partners and started to brainstorm, discuss, break-down our methodoly and best practices. It was a very interactive and succesful first meeting, catching me offguard as I felt a bit like we weren´t in Peru. I am use to dry, unproductive meetings in this country. Together we made an agenda for the week and and talked about some delicate and important issues in the village banking processes. Our new partners, Multicredit, are very professional and dedicated to doing genuine, good work. You can feel it in their ideas and energy. This morning was like a re-charge battery pack for village banking.

Tomorrow we will meet again to hash out more details of our work together, Thursday we will buy some jewelry from our women and Friday will be an excursion to a new village banking site. Will try to make some time to blog as there is really cool stuff going on right now.

Til then, Nora