End of Week 3

The time is flying by! I thought I would have more time to work on this blog, but other projects have taken precedence. Specifically for Barrios Unidos, here is what I am currently working on:

Letters woohoo!

Responding to letters - the Prison Project took a bit of a hiatus for the past six months and went through some transition, so we have not been able to respond to letters as quickly as we would have liked. I wrote a response to someone who sent a letter in March 2015, just so you have an idea of what our back-log looks like :

Organizing and consolidating - because the Project has not received ample attention, we have been going through the filing system and recycling outdated & irrelevant information. Not being sarcastic, organizing is one of my favorite things to do.

Updating the Intern/Volunteer handbook - hopefully we will be adding more interns over the next few weeks, so I am improving the guidebook.

Writing reflection essays - I have to write four of these for my class by next Friday. Two are complete and I have started on the third, so I'll know what I'll be doing over the weekend. I wish I could say the work ends when I leave for the day!

Research Project - Creating a survey, coordinating an event in which I can utilize the interactive prison cell, and figuring out how I administer said survey. 

Graphic design-ish - the Prison Project also sends greeting cards to inmates, so we have looking through a lot of prisoner artwork, scanning said artwork, and formatting images on the Word Doc. For photo editing, I have been using this website called Pixlr, which is online and free! The original artwork was blue, orange, and yellow, so I just played around with color effects and here are the results: