Monday 24 – global business

Hello families, we are Laisha and Hermione! Today, we started off the day by waking up early at 6:00 am, then headed straight to Isabel’s for breakfast. Then we caught a bus to Guano to visit a few local businesses. The first business was Cerquie, which produces quinoa cereals. The journey first starts off with natural quinoa grains, which are then put through a process where the grains are compressed, flavored, and prepared for the market. The business currently sells three flavors: chocolate, vanilla, and passionfruit. Next, we headed to Zapateria Arevalo to see the process of homemade leather shoes being created. By first cutting the needed amount of leather, the leather strips are glued and heated together to start the formation of a shoe. With the help of some machines, the workers were able to efficiently morph the leather strips with shoe soles to form shoes. Finally, we took the bus to Carlos Garbay, which is the first school for disabled students in Ecuador. The school gave these students a chance to learn skills that would provided useful for their daily lives when they get jobs despite their disabilities. Their disabilities ranged anywhere from physical to mental disabilities. We took the time there to gather ideas for our Community Action Project (CAP). This project is meant to help a community, or communities, receive a form of sustainable improvement that our Global Glimpse group worked towards. At 2:00 pm, we headed back to Riobamba to have a late lunch at Isabel’s and returned to the hotel for the CAP 2 meeting. We decided our project to be a mix of restoring a gazebo, fixing trash cans, and painting/touching up murals on the school walls. We divided into three groups to create presentations for the next day as we will see if our ideas would result in a good project. Afterwards, we headed to Isabel’s for dinner and had delicious pizza! Thank you for keeping up with our Global Glimpse group!