Soooo, what the heck do you do Vanessa???
It’s been over a year now (13 months, 22 days, 13 hours, and 62 seconds from my swear-in date… who’s counting?) and I realize that many of you are pondering, so what the heck do you do Vanessa?! So here is a glimpse of what I'm doing in my community of Nacaome, Honduras.
First off, the main project I am working on is the development of tourism in the southern region of Honduras in coordination with the tourism office in the south (tourism office= Don Sergio Lovo, a member of the tourism office). I am currently working with two microbusinesses concentrating in the field of ecotourism. During these past months the tourism office and I have visited both businesses, implemented SWOT analysis, and applied some of our findings during the course of the year. My major contribution for these two ecotourism businesses is creating a brochure for each business. Although it does sound pretty easy, it has been quite a challenge and experience. First being, I’m not at all familiar with the “Spanish selling vocab” required for marketing and two, I’m just not that creative when it comes to creating… stuff. So throughout these months I have made several trips to each business, worked with the members of the businesses, and am slowly but surely creating their first official promotional material. I’ll be posting el producto final muy pronto… ¡si Dios Quiere! (:
I SEE YOU!!! STOP DOZING OFF!
Most recently, I have been working with the RED de Mujeres in Nacaome (Women’s group from Nacaome). I have always been working close with these ladies, on day to day activities, for example writing reports about their activities to send them off via email to organizations that fund them and assisting their seminars. One thing I noticed with these women was that they were so overexposed with charlas about women’s rights, women’s this and women’s that, that I thought it would be productive to do something empowering women and spark an entrepreneurial interest in these ladies. I had already been exposed to the art of wallet making out of snack bags (i.e. Doritio bags), but I never knew how to make them so I decided to take it upon myself and teach myself via youtube how to make these practical yet useful and fashionable wallets and in turn teach the RED de Mujeres how to make these wallets and begin selling them. Below you will find pictures of me teaching them how to make them.
On the side, I teach 2 English classes. One is to a group of about 8 kids in a program called Educatodos. Educatodos is a program for students of all ages who are not able to assist regular school due to work or other circumstances and is also a cheaper route for students rather than the traditional schooling. The other English group is for Intermediate to Advanced English speakers. This second group was formed by me after noticing that many people were interested in simply being able to practice their English.
So there is a synopsis of some of my work, just thought you all would be interested. Hope you enjoyed and below are a couple pics.
Hope everyone is doing well! : )
Besos y abrazos!
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