Selling Selling Selling!

We are now entering the third month of the program. I think we have made a lot of progress so far and am very happy with how things are going. I hope that this next month we can continue moving forward with the classes and small businesses. 

As of now, everyone has sold at least a handful of products to not only the staff here at Shelter, but volunteers, visitors and even people in town. It has been quite and experience going into town and trying to sell things. They have learned that its not easy to sell things to strangers. They found out that you need some tough skin because not everyone is going to respond nicely to them. Some people are very rude and will just ignore them as they try to talk/sell to them. But, there are also people who were friendly and even if they didn't buy something they wanted more information about the program. There have also been a few who said that they wanted to come to Shelter and see what our project is all about. We even had people who didn't want to buy anything but wanted to donate. It has been a very interesting process and I am learning a lot as well. 

We are doing the best we can without a vehicle. I didn't realize how hard it would be living so far from the city without our own car. By not having one it takes away from a lot of the socialization programs I wanted them to do, thus not giving them the full transition experience. I'm hoping that we can raise enough money soon to purchase something so that the girls can be fully prepared and aware of what to expect once they live out on their own. 

Other than that, all is well. I have been bad about posting blogs and videos and I'm sorry about that. I will try and force myself to sit down for two seconds each week and post something, even if it is short. Thanks for all the support, the girls and I really appreciate it!

Until next time!