Basic Prep. Work

How fitting ... a girl from British ColUmbia going to ColOmbia.

30 day countdown ...

Happy New Year!  Hasn't it come quickly?

And quickly is the rate at which my next trip commences.  In 30 days I depart for Colombia where I will be bringing tools and education to underpriviliged and deserving young adults living in barrios (neighbourhoods) just outside of the city, Santa Marta. 

Thanks to the overwhelming support of:  Family, friends, co-workers, clients, and the community I am so fortunate to be a part of ... Together we have been raising funds to support this project. 

I feel so lucky to be the spearheader.  Most people are curious how I got involved and the short answer is that a curiosity about a culture had me google existing grass-roots organizations in Colombia and when www.fmacolombia.weebly.com came up I fired off an email inquiring about how I might help out.  When they learned I was going to be in their area for a month they asked if I was interested in starting a new program and I thought, "Why not?"  And so the journey began.




My past seven weeks have been spent researching, fundraising and developing the program's curriculum in my spare time.  In fact, I have pretty much deleted the whole "spare time" part of my life, but when you combine curiosity + passion it somehow = extra energy and attention. 


I've been learning a lot and I'm looking forward to delivering this creation that we call "Cutting Borders".