Workman's Comp

Is there such a thing for a non profit? I may have lead poisoning. Carpel tunnel.  Does it come on quickly? My eyes are all blurry. Strange. But seriously... you should see my aching, throbbing, blister ridden, lead stained hands from sharpening all 300 pencils that we are taking with us to Haiti for our training classes. You'd think we would buckle up and buy the electric sharpener huh? No sir, we like to do things the hard way here at Open Hand. Or injured hand... I'm not sure which right now.

We leave in a week or so and we need to have all the training materials/office supplies for Franck because he will begin training on October 15th. As we have been making copies, printing materials and 3 hole punching materials I encountered another casualty of war... RIP dear 3 Hole Punch. Literally broke into pieces.

So yesterday I was on a mission - a "how cheap can you get a folder" mission. I went from big box store to store looking for the cheapest folders I could find for our loan recipients. We want them to have some note paper and a place to keep their notes. I was on the hunt for the elusive '10cent folder' and convinced Alisha had sent me on a wild goose chase. Shame on you, Walmart because of course, I tried you first but alas you disappointed me. My last stop was Target and as I headed back to their huge picked through school supplies section it was like I could hear angels singing as I came across the 10 CENT FOLDERS. It was like finding the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. They exist! I almost did a little dance. Now the fun part, to stand there and count out 300 folders and to make sure they were the correct 10 cent ones because everything was all mixed up by this point. Then when I get up to the counter to pay for them the cashier has to count every single one because there are different bar codes for some. Oh jeez. Half hour later I exited Target with my 300 folders. Now here's the funny part - those suckers weigh a ton! We are going to have to take extra luggage in order to bring all our supplies down to our guys. But we will have them prepared!

Oh.... silly me for forgetting to tell you this - Franck started taking applications this week and has taken almost 400 so far!!!! People from all over the region are coming and hoping for a loan. We have the desperate people, now we need to reach the ones with the money to help them.