The Community-Based Initiative

Our original CBI was a local culture film festival that the town could attend -- complete with popcorn, red tape, and three films that their very own techies had created. This sounds good because of the marketing -- especially with some Aztec/Zapotec red meat thrown in there.

In reality, it would be an agreeable stunt. Video editing is not an essential skill. And you're not going to get people to continue it after you leave.

Consequently, (as of now), we've decided on a three-part CBI: (1) Continue holding English/computer classes for kids and teens at the Agencia. Also hold classes for the mothers of Ninos Unidos, who will be able to train their 200 students when we leave. (2) Hold an amaranth cooking/planting class for mothers in the area every other week. (3) Facilitate those classes by building a half-lawn amaranth garden. In order to build that garden, we will have to manually shovel out half of the lawn. Something I ironically did at my own house TWO DAYS before I left!