By Laura Gonzalez Bernabe | Workshop Coordinator
Greetings from Querétaro to all our friends and supporters in different parts of the World!
We’ve had a good beginning of the New Year and were happy to welcome back three beneficiaries that had left the workshop during the pandemic: Julia, Fernanda and Juan José, as well as two new persons: Camila and Santiago. They participate along with the other beneficiaries in one or more of the four production areas: art, carpentry, bakery and jewelry making.
Early in February some of the volunteer students from the Technology de Monterrey University organized an art exhibit at the workshop in Santa Bárbara. It was a very pleasant afternoon as we witnessed how the recognition of the beneficiaries’ artistic gifts through the showcase of their own paintings bring them great joy and self-confidence. It also motivates the team of assistants who accompany the beneficiaries as they keep developing and improving their gifts; and of course it was very rewarding to family members who got to see all the latest paintings.
The bakery team was very busy in February preparing “tamales” for a special celebration in Mexico: the Day of the “Virgen de la Candelaria”, as well as bread, cookies, and stuffed empanadas. The participants of an L’Arche international retreat hosted in Querétaro, enjoyed the delicious cookies during the coffee/tea breaks, and were very happy to visit the workshop, see all the products and buy some of them as gifts to take back home to their respective communities in the Americas. In the closing event of the retreat, our beneficiaries were delighted to present their talents in a Mexican folk dance.
We are truly blessed with the good energy and motivating environment in the workshop thanks to the openness of the beneficiaries to learning and advancing, the wonderful accompaniment of the assistants and volunteers, the encouragement of family members, and of course the generosity of all the donors, like you, who make our work possible!!!
¡¡¡Gracias, gracias, gracias!!!
Warm regards from an early spring in Querétaro,
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