I have to share this. We just received a donation from someone who also sent us this email:
“We adopted our son when he was 3 months old. He’s now 10 and doing well. I periodically check online for organizations where we can donate the change we collect in our household.
Looks like you are doing great things.”
John is going to Bogota tomorrow. He will meet with lawyers to set up a nonprofit foundation in Colombia so that we can do business there. He’ll also visit Amparo and see if we can get an machine installed immediately. There’s also a boys’ orphanage in Madrid that is interested in meeting us.
What do you think about this? A building in downtown Bogota, in the safe part of town, with knitting machines and yarn, a storefront for sales and a place for wholesalers to come and buy our knitters’ projects. A daycare for our knitters’ kids, and then an elementary school onsite as the kids get older. A computer lab with a teacher and a business teacher to come and teach the women how to run their own businesses. A cafe….
None of this sounds impossible to me, although raising the money for it might be out of reach ? I don’t know…
Looks like we will be able to have the first knitting machine installed around the beginning of June! Our contact at Singer in Bogota will have one for us very soon: all we have to do is coordinate the delivery and payment. I have two people who are going to be trained on the machine initially. It’s so cool!
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