Hola. We’ve made it to Managua safely and have had a great trip so far. We started the trip with a weekend at the beach where we participated in numerous team building exercises. Today we broke off into three small groups: consulting, microfinance and small business visits.
I was a part of the small business trips where we went and spoke with numerous business owners in the area. They had all either previously been to the seminar or will be joining us tomorrow. One woman has owned a water distribution plant for 17 years and has been to both the seminar last spring and December. She showed us all of the ways that she had incorporated what she had learned at the seminars into her business. She also proudly displayed her Wake Forest certificate in the entrance of her plant. It was very satisfying to see that the seminar has had such a lasting effect.
Another woman we visited with is sending her son to the seminar tomorrow. She owns a candy company and distributes her products all over Central America. She told us how just a year ago she had such serious health problems that her doctors told her medicine would no longer work for her. She spoke about her passion for her business and her desire to serve her community through both her company and her church. While we have only spent a day here in Managua I already have a strong feeling that we will learn just as much from this community as they will learn from us.
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