Workshop

Yesterday was a workshop day. Angelina and Jordan talked about Bookkeeping and Visual Merchandising, we had a snack break, and then I talked about the Elements & Principles of Design, and some Color Theory. Color printing is expensive so it wasn't feasible to print copies of the color wheel for everyone (or color copies of the entire presentation). So Tuesday night I began hand coloring a total of 54 color wheels, finishing the next morning with the help of Sarah and Angelina. You have to innovate when you lack certain tools, therefore we used three computers to display my presentation because we don't have a projector (donations are gladly accepted, wink wink!) The end of the presentation was about  six different color schemes and how they can use the color wheel to figure these out. So we had a hands on activity planned for them to practice. Once again, we had to be ingenious about how we would accomplish this. We looked through our batik fabric scraps and found the ones that represented the 12 colors in the wheel I gave them. We passed out scraps of every color and then worked with the women to separate them into the color schemes they had just learned about. Although it would've been better to have done the workshop with smaller groups to have a little more individualized attention, we still managed to help a lot of them and answer all their questions. The women that were most interested stayed longer to talk to me and make sure they got everything right. This was one of my favorite days during my entire time in Ghana, and reaffirmed the growing desire in my heart to work in women's ministry and maybe one day start an organization like Global Mamas with Nicaraguan women.