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January 13th, 2010

Great news from Columbia

I just wanted to share with everyone that we recieved news a few nights ago that greenLockers materials have made it down to a village just south of Bogota, Columbia. I am posting the email:

“I [the author of the email] went down with one other person and we lived in Los Altos de la Florida, Colombia (just south of Bogota). The community is mostly internally displaced people and most people have been living there for 10-18 years. Even though they are very close to Bogota (that has 8 million+ people) they do not have running water, sewer system, or a good education system. Some are able to go to school but most do not.

During our stay, we each lived with a family and taught every morning in the “library” (which also doubled as a garage for a community truck). We organized 70 children from a few hours every morning and they ranged from 1 year to 14 years old. The picture of the Christmas tree is filled with ornaments we made one day. They wrote lots of letters, made Christmas drawings, copied the alphabet & numbers, and did a few math problems. It was a wonderful experience and I am yearning to go back and teach! The picture of the three adults is myself, Ross (whom I traveled with) and Norma. Norma founded Coda a Coda and helped set up our stay in the community. Thank you so much for everything you do and all the school supplies greenLockers collected—it is much needed! The kids loved it!!”

Here are some pictures