In Nicaragua it is traditional to put grills on the windows. We decided to use a simple design of interlocking squares. The grills were fabricated and installed by a Fundación scholarship student, Henry Sevilla. Henry is about to graduate with a degree in Civil Engineering. He did his internship with MultiServicios, the contractor for the Fundación offices, and was also the subcontractor for the roof and flashing. Henry's family has a welding shop half a block from the new offices. 

From the very first designs of the new building, Alvaro's office was located on the northern side. This was because as Program Director, there is always a stream of scholarship students heading for his office. For this reason it made sense to have his office near the entrance. But when Alvaro finally sat in his completed office, we had to laugh at the memory of the day when we had first staked out the rooms, and Alvaro had imagined sitting at his desk. In reality, where he was crouching in 2018 is very close to where he is sitting in the office this week--and he is facing the same direction, east.
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The staff moved into their new offices today, with the help of two parents of scholarship students. Karla Castillo, mother of Jeyson Pérez, helped pack, and José Rafael Ruiz, father of Nancy Ruiz, loaded the furniture on his truck and drove to the new offices. Several scholarhip students also helped.

With the rainy season approaching, the engineers decided that it would be best to improve on the rainwater system. The contractors installed a drain and a large pipe to remove rain but the slope of the back yard meant some rain would possibly pool against the building. A drainage canal was built along the side of the building out to the street on the east side by Engineer (and FAJB graduate) Kenneth Avendaño and his crew