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Preparing for 2019 trip

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Welcome to new readers!  For further information  How it all started. I will be leaving for Nicaragua on 20/1 to spend five weeks there, four on Ometepe Island addressing the priorities of the project..  I have obtained an additional suitcase and will be taking both equipment for the school and things for the community and family. I have been donated a teddy bear by someone from Billingshurst Unitarian Chapel, children's clothing and stationery by Susan, Elizabeth  and Esther, baby clothes by Sue, a huge amount of stationery by Rotary club Farnham, (some has been boxed up for the containers) , but I am taking enough to make up teacher's packs .  Through searching for a case on Facebook, I have been donated a trumpet by Kath & Bill, and Cult pens have provided a donation of extra pens when I ordered sharpeners from them. The question is going to be, which extra suitcase do I need? I am also hoping that the box that was sent out in May, will arrive befor

Boxes of equipment are en route

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On Friday 12th October I was invited to attend the loading of a container destined for Nicaragua, the first for a year.  It was my first visit to the warehouse, and I was overwhelmed by its capacity and the stock collected there.  I watched as the Peace and Hope team loaded hospital equipment, mattresses, beds, chairs, crutches and squeezed in various boxes I had gathered during the year for The Rafaela Herrera School and the local community. Finally we waved goodbye as the lorry headed off to a port where it will depart in about a week.  Its transit and then release of the goods through customs is an unknown timescale and this time I have to arrange for someone to collect the boxes as no ground team will be going. Fortunately I have developed a wide web of contacts.  One of the strongmen!  Everything is recorded, numbered and checked.  Boxes for Rafaela Herrera  mmm My boxes, where are they, a needle in a haystack!  There is a system and a great team of volunteer