Imi is isolated enough that it doesn't suffer from the overdose of governmental and non-governmental institutions that other Guaraní communities have to tolerate, but we have had our problems. A program called PEI (Proyecto de Educación Indígena) sucked us into three or four day-long workshops, promised to finance the construction of a new school and the development of an improved curriculum, and disappeared. It rose from the ashes a year later and repeated the process. The third time, it required only one day of workshops, and promised that as soon as we produced 6000 adobes, money for the construction would come through. The entire community, men and women, young and old, worked together a total of six days towards this goal, and PEI was never heard from again. The rains came, and there was nothing we could do to protect our work. The adobes are earth, once again.