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Progress in Ometepe

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I am now preparing for my annual visit.  This year I will visit for around 7 weeks;  there is more to do, more to check and evaluate than before.  This year we have helped the secondary school and two primaries, plus three rural satellite schools.  I want to have time to do this when it is possible without applying pressure on anyone, and also to have time to become even better acquainted. We have had some good news and some bad news. In September I received photos of a funeral for a 6 year old who had died of a heart attack.  Earlier in the year a young girl from Santa Teresa died in a road accident. The headteacher and pupils were involved in the funeral. The good news, was to hear that the Rotary grant we had applied for had come through.  So Daniel and Pedro Antonio have been busy making furniture for the musical instruments and tables for instruction, and securing the doors and fitting locks so that the new equipment will be safe. Once again we will be buy