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Grupo Venancia Continue to Serve the Community

By Craig Grimes

Even though a lot is going on with Grupo Venancia and it’s been a hard couple of weeks due to political repression and uncertainty, the women have kept going strong. Throughout this whole debacle they have only closed the Centro Cutural de Guanuca one Saturday night. For this reason, here are some photos of what we’ve been doing the last couple of weekends.

Saturday 18th October

A group of us got together to paint T-shirts to express ourselves about the current situation.

In the evening, a group called Latin Jazz played and many of us wore our newly painted T-shirts….

Saturday 25th October

We celebrated a friend’s birthday at the Centro Cultural.

All in all, the women at Grupo Venancia are holding up well at a very trying time. Hats off to them and let’s keep our chins held high through this crisis.

Born on the 4th July…..

By Craig Grimes

So just like Tom Cruise in the classic film, born on the 4th of July, so was I, although I didn’t have to go to Vietnam in order to get my disability (did he ever get over that in the film? I never got past the bit of the film where he was doing rehabilitation in hospital, I just kept falling asleep).

Another birthday has been and gone and I had a really good day. Edurne and I got up and she bought me a coffee machine, some clothes and a white board as I’ve been complaining for ages that I was more organised in Barcelona when I had one. Edurne has printed off some photos of me and her and stuck them on the board as well as leaving me a birthday message. I was dead chuffed with my presents and after testing the coffee machine we went out and had lunch. We then went on the massive task of buying supplies for the party that we had later in the evening.

Once we’d got the supplies Edurne took them off home in a taxi and I went looking for a present for a friend as it is his birthday a couple of days later. I didn’t find the present I was looking for him, but I did manage to get caught out in a huge thunderstorm. By the time I got home I was soaked to the bone and wheelchair and had to get completely changed.

Later in the evening we had a party at home and lots of friends came over and wrote things on the white board, had fun and drank a fair bit! All in all not a bad way to celebrate your 32nd birthday.