¡Necesito una pared!

The Fútbol sin Fronteras year is quickly wrapping up down here in Granada. We only have two weeks left of official programming and practices before the office closes for December! Before we shut down at the end of this month, the girls, with the help of the staff are going to plan and paint a public mural that promotes youth and women in sports!

My main task in the last few weeks was to find a wall, and find some city official who would be willing to donate said wall to us for our community outreach project. The subsequent search led me through multiple offices in the mayor's office, had me talking to the committee in charge of the highest quality local sports complex and writing multiple drafts of multiple official letters. The entire process took a long time, but was a lot of fun and provided a great way to get to know how different city programs and offices run.

After a few failed requests with employees within the mayor's office, we found an in with the assitant of another official. After an initial meeting with her and her boss, she quickly became my ally, revising letters, inviting me to meetings and telling where and when I needed to be to get permissions signed. In the end Larkin and I went to a meeting at Granada's Children's Wellness Fund where we met with a commite in charge of the local baseball complex, multiestadio. The committee is made up of older men who are very protective of their baseball fields and the leader (and most senile) of the group especially doesn't seem too concerned with promoting girls sports in the city. Thankfully, our ally from the mayor's office helped me navigate the presentation to him. In the end, the group gave us permission to use a portion of the wall in the multiestadio complex. The only catch is that there MUST be some image of baseball somewhere in the mural.