Planning Meeting Update

Well, we had a planning meeting on Friday and have come up with our first projects.

We are decorating the school's small breastfeeding room as our first project. We have had a comfortable sitting chair and a lamp donated, and one of our group has created some lovely artwork for the walls. We plan to have a breastfeeding coach/lactation consultant who will do a small seminar at the school and we will unveil the breastfeeding room at that time.

We are also fundraising to purchase water tables for each of the seven older classrooms. We have found someone who will build them for us, so next week we are going to make sugar cookies and sell them at two of the local Montessori preschools in Santiago. With these funds we will purchase the materials need to build the materials, which will cost 10,000 pesos per table (about $20 US).

Future projects were discussed: we will be contacting the high school art students about volunteering to paint the murals, and a draft letter to potential doners.

Finally, we started talking about a Christmas party at the school, but no plans were finalized.