Dreaming Together Hardware Store (Sonando Juntos Ferreteria) is Open

And after just two months, the residents are celebrat ing it as one of the best things that has happened in their community!

"I can ride my horse to get what I need!"

"It's wonderful, now I don't have to go the Leon to buy nails!"

"I think I can repair my house now!"

The Ferreteria opened in late December, but sales have exceeded the women's expectations and already two young people from the community have been hired as clerks, and an umemployed farmer has been hired as the guard! (Three jobs in a community with 95% unemployment is significant!)

In late February, a group of North American women traveled from Bartlesville, Oklahoma to participate in the Grand Opening of the Ferreteria. They brought some donted tools with them, and together the women of Chacraseca and the women of Oklahoma painted the "Dreaming Together" logo on the Ferreteria, cleaned and sorted tools, and organized inventory, while they shared their stories, their laughter, their hopes and dreams.