Monday May 6, 2013 update #444
Bella was off for groceries this morning while I zipped off
to Banco Pichincha to see about arranging for a credit card in US funds. I stopped to ask the first floor personnel
who sent me to the second floor who then sent me to see Diana on the fourth
floor. It was a short conversation
because they need patrons to open a one-year CD for a large amount then they
will give a credit card for 90% of the amount.
Having a US
credit card can save us a lot of conversion fees so we think it will be worth
it. Bella says I can try this tomorrow.
As I headed over to Hearts Of Gold I spotted this fellow
brushing down what I think was artificial turf in a sports field, but pulling
the brushes with a motorcycle! We have
all seen this kind of thing done with tractors or ATV’s before, but never with
a motorcycle.
The new Hearts Of Gold offices are much more spacious and it
seems most of the staff are settled in nicely.
Apparently this beautiful home had been vacant for many years, for
reasons unknown. It would seem that
they have lots of room for the two couches that we are donating to them on
Thursday.
We got into some detailed discussions about a couple of
fundraisers we are considering and they raised almost as many questions as they
supplied answers. One thing is for sure,
HoG needs to get officially legal ASAP so we can really make our presence felt
and get proper banking and money-handling issues all handled in-house.
My suggestion for an ongoing online fundraiser will necessarily
be put on hold for a while not only because of the above but also because so
many of our volunteers are going to be out-of-country over the next 3-4 months. We still did up some ideas and suggestions
for the executive to mull over and Bella helped us out enormously with her
Excel skills.
We will be organizing a straight online fundraising effort
designed to help poor kids attend school.
Last year it was very successful so we want to build on that if we
can. We have scheduled another meeting
for tomorrow to gather information for a news bulletin that I have been drafted
to write.
Yesterday we had 3 separate rainstorms and I took a couple
of timed shots just for fun last night.
The rivers have risen nicely with the welcome moisture and another little
rainshower is passing by as I type this.
I spotted this colourful yellow bird quite a distance away
and hurriedly took a shot. I have
cropped and enlarged it so the quality is pretty bad but I get the impression
that this little bird has a small toucan-like beak. I will have to keep an eye out for him.
I certainly can’t figure out Google. I actually can open my Gmail much faster
through Firefox than I can through Google Chrome….. Does this make any sense???
That was today’s excitement. Hugs to all.
Please see all new photos at http://souvenircuenca.blogspot.com/
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