Making Plans

At this point, I find it kind of funny to try and annouce our plans. They keep falling though and changing so quickly that it seems slightly pointless to post. However, I'm hoping against hope that this opportunity will work out, so hopefully posting it won't make it cursed like the others.

After deciding to pass on working at Black Sheep Inn last week, I spamed all the microfinance NGO's in Ecuador. Thankfully my first choice got back to me right away and was more than happy to help set up an internship.

Fundacion ESPOIR (website currently under construction) is a MFI that works with almost 40,000 women in Ecuador, giving them small loans and setting up educational projects. They work mainly along the coast and in the south. Thier headquarters is in Quito and these are the folks I've been speaking with.

According to the plan, we will be going to Portoviejo in Manabí province on Monday to start working in their largest regional office. It should be an amazing experience, as this is exactly the kind of project I had hoped to get involved with when we came down to Ecuador.
It's hard for us to believe, but we have to renew our 90 day visa in less than two weeks. We have to be back in Quito to do that, but then we're hoping to work with ESPOIR for a while longer.

Portoviejo is about an hour from the actual coast, so we're leaving Quito tonight and will be spending the weekend back in Canoa, our favorite little surf town.