This week is the week I finish my 120 hours required for the class. The start of the week has been quiet and it was just me and Ivan working on spreads for the magazine. The last day of for my hours the team worked on mailing out as many holiday cards as possible. Inside the envelope is a holiday card, a “save the date” for International Women’s Day this March, and a message from WPC which included an additional envelope for the receiver if they want to donate to WPC. Me, Ivan and other volunteers finished preparing 100 envelopes and we drove to a nearby post office. They purchases stamps, put them on and mailed them out.

After lunch Lisa held a staff meeting and talked about various things. First topic was that today was International Human Rights Day, and explained examples of how Cuba has a more refined system than the US. Cuba lacks poverty, uneducated people, homeless and other things because of their social, political and economic systems. Lisa also announced WPC’s move to the Bronx in the coming months. She explains how this move is very good for WPC because it establishes a base of operations as well as the Bronx being a good place for WPC to collectivize the people. There were those who were upset because of how far the Bronx is from our current location but there are those who are thrilled because many live there, as well as their organizations who’d like to work with WPC.  This marked the 120+ mark in my hours.