Yesterday, I spent about 4 hours traveling to La Dalia, Matagalpa to visit a Casa Materna where two Peace Corps volunteers have been working. Matagalpa is beautiful, green, mountainous. La Dalia is probably a medium sized town, and the Casa Materna was amazing. They are what we call "Super Volunteers" and have accomplished some amazing things in their 2 years of service(they leave in a few weeks). They´ve created a series of posters that provide information pregnant women should know that have been approved nationally to go into all of the Casa Maternas in the country. Pretty cool.
Here´s a picture of a mural they created at the CM. They also organized this area into a garden- they received outside funding for both. In the back you can see an oven that they also installed in this CM. The agriculture volunteers help build these as part of their projects, so they had help with that too. Plus, behind the oven, there is a spectacular view of the mountains. Reminded me of being the the Bay Area, being surrounded by mountains again.
The other picture is of my friends Lucus and Robyn. We took it before our 3.5 hour bus ride to La Dalia on our friend Lauren´s camera.
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