Nourish goes to Brazil

first a disclaimer, brazillian keyboards confuse me, so capital letters will be missing from my posts.  \\\\\\\\else it would look like that every time i try to press shift.

if anyone has been waiting on our first post, sorry for the delay, we haven´t had much progress for the ´project until today due to certain factors

so, today we began the project for banco palmas, and what a start it was.  for everyone whp is unfamiliar with banco palmas, it is a community bank founded in a ´poor neighborhood on the outskirts of fortaleza (generally speaking, the farther from the center of the city, the less developed the area is)  banco palmas is celebrating ten successful years of serving as the foundation of this communidad.  It provides no interest loans, fosters the local economy with the local ´´palma´´ currency´, and it dedicated to the development of this area, conjunto palmeiras

banco palmas invited nourish to come help them with a recent project: the construction of a musical instrument factory.  The local band has gotten all sorts of offers for the instruments they play on, but they have no way to actually sell these unique instruments without some way to massproducing them.  That´s where nourish comes in.  our plan is to rennovate an existing building near banco palmas and implement all the necessary machinery into the building.

i´ve got to get back to work, but here´s the basic outline of what we hope to achieve:

raise the roof about a meter (remove clay roofing shingles, add layers of bricks, re-lay the shingles)

seal off a door and a few windows

knock down a brick wall (sounds fun? it will be!)

open a few more windows in the walls

buy and install the proper machinery

This may not seem like much, but even with a few professional masons and a team of volunteers, we expect it to take about 2 weeks of solid work

The community we are in is so great, they have made us their family and are always supportive

I gotta run, talk to you guys soon!

joel, if you´re reading this, the correct banco palmas website is: http://www.bancopalmas.org.br/

-Jerry