| On January 18th we held a small anniversary activity to celebrate 10 years of the education programmes run by the Estelí Women's School. The school was originally founded by the Barr Foundation of Oklahoma and subsequently taken on by the Superemos Foundation. Among the invited guests were several of the original students as well as friends and family of the project workers. We are grateful to all our friends and supporters who have sustained the education, training, health and social work programmes since we began work on them in late 1998. The first classes in the project centre were given in January 1999. The school now assists around 100 women on low incomes with scholarships every year. Total attendance of scholarship and non-scholarship students is around 350 every year. | |
 Director of secondary education Bertha Imelda Sanabria inaugurates the anniversary celebration |
 former student Cristina Blandón explains why the Estelí Women's school has been important for her and her family |
 Superemos president, Gladys Ruiz Gonzalez |
 an extremely transient anniversary cake |