Nicaragua updates

Just over a week ago I traveled with a team to the “department” of Boaco. In the picture below you can see the ever-present yellow school buses -- yes, they are from the US, and sometimes the writing of the former school district is not painted over. They are used as city buses, and for just five cordobas (25 cents) they’ll take you where you want to go.

The city of Boaco, capital of the eponymous (?) department. You can also see a fruit stand and a cool-looking roof with tall weeds growing on it.

Jacob and Adolfo are patiently waiting. Can you read Jacob’s shirt?

We went to the village of San Juan Buenaventura the first day, and one of my first sites at the house where community meetings are held was this very contented pig:

Completely unaware that he is Christmas dinner….

I facilitated a lesson on the uplifting topic of “sadness” for some of the APECS (the perinatal CHEs) and a few committee members.

Here are two budding young actors doing a dramatization about grief. The two kids next to me are neighbors that dropped in.

Sulma, one of my Argentine team-members, gave a lesson on development. Here she is eating the huge supper that our host provided:

Barbecued pork, gallo pinto (rice and beans), cheese curds, cabbage salad, and tortillas.