The Salvation Army opened the Patvērums Childrens Day Centre in March 2002 to provide a safe environment for underprivileged children from the local community in Riga.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
This week so far...
When this week began we knew it was going to be a busy and fairly stressful one but it's only Wednesday and I think all of the staff are in serious need of some chocolate!!
Monday - 3 of us set off to buy the new kitchen equipment we need to pass the inspection. So we jump on a tram and off we went. Found the place without too much hassle and then we slowly went around the shop collecting all the items we need only to be told that you aren't meant to collect the items but tell one of the staff the things you want and they make an order. So we put it all back and start again!! We managed to find all but one item - fridge thermometers (they are proving hard to find!). I leave Lilita and Vineta to finish up as I needed to head back to the house so Graeme could go to a meeting. Not too bad but when I phone down a little later to see how it went they had problems with paying for it (we pay through the bank) and it's now Wednesday and still we don't have the correct papers from them so we can pay and get our things delivered!
Tuesday - I had our monthly leaders meeting all day. That went fine, downstairs they had a 'normal' day but 2 of the boys decided to make it interesting and really play up so much so that they lost all their 100 points and wont be in for the rest of the week!!
Wednesday - The day that none of us were looking for to as we had the final agencies inspection booked! The sanitary agency!! We've been sorting out and cleaning the centre throughout the week or so(it was in need of a good tidy!) We all had a rather stressful morning worrying about it and then I came down to the centre to discover that instead of coming at 2pm as arranged she'd had a free slot at 12pm and so came then instead even though she knew our working hours are 1-8pm!!! Argh!! We were not best pleased! So we've rearranged it for tomorrow, again at 2pm.
Then to put the cherry on top one of our mum's arrives at the centre very upset as her 2 children had left school early and she couldn't find them anywhere. Thankfully after about an hour and a few phone calls we discovered they'd gone back to the crisis centre and were fine!
So...that's our week so far! Tomorrow we have the inspection (hopefully) and Vineta and I are interviewing our one and only applicant for Lilita's job. That's at 3.30pm EET and then Friday is Lilita's last day. I'll let you know how it goes!
posted by Patverums Childrens Day Centre @ 7:14 pm
Sounds like Latvia has not changed too much! Hope the final inspection went well (if the inspector came this time!) - and sorry for being part of setting you of on this track while you were on holiday! Hope it will be worthwhile.
Sounds like Latvia has not changed too much! Hope the final inspection went well (if the inspector came this time!) - and sorry for being part of setting you of on this track while you were on holiday! Hope it will be worthwhile.