Latest news from our volunteer
We currently have an English volunteer at Colonia Ecologica, Abi Young, who arrived there in October. She is studying Spanish and has chosed to take her year abroad doing volunteer work there while studying Spanish. Here is what she has written from Colonia.
“The construction is going quite fast, there’s a new building called a libreria being built at the moment with two floors, just to the left before the library. It will be for materials that the children need - like exercise books, pens and pencils etc. and also for arts equipment that we use in the afternoon. When I arrived the paths were pretty much all mud still but now after all the hard “piedrar” (stone laying) work that the kids put in, it is all paved with stones. They have also made a pattern of a flower and a butterfly to the side of the path; I find this really impressive as it is hard to even fit stones in a normal pattern when I´m doing it! The tables for meal times have moved up to the area underneath the main house so that they are more sheltered in the rainy season.
There are two new children at Colonia who are sisters; Elena, 4 and Cristina, 3. They´re both very happy and lively. Elena is a very caring older sister, if we´re doing something and Cristina isn´t there she will say "y para mi hermanita tambien!" (and for my sister too!) They´ve just bought a couple of new beds for them as well, they sleep in the room with Rosa and Camilla. There are lots of new small chairs now after Eleanor and Tom, an English couple who have now left, donated a bit of money.
It’s now the summer holidays so there isn´t any homework to do but we have been reading lots and working hard, varnishing the wood on the buildings and finishing off the piedrar work. We´ve also been making animal masks for when they do the Christmas show which I´ve gathered involves a lot of dancing and singing. Everyone is also looking forward to their annual camping trip!”
Thank you very much to Abi for her work at the project, and for keeping us up to date. We would also like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
“The construction is going quite fast, there’s a new building called a libreria being built at the moment with two floors, just to the left before the library. It will be for materials that the children need - like exercise books, pens and pencils etc. and also for arts equipment that we use in the afternoon. When I arrived the paths were pretty much all mud still but now after all the hard “piedrar” (stone laying) work that the kids put in, it is all paved with stones. They have also made a pattern of a flower and a butterfly to the side of the path; I find this really impressive as it is hard to even fit stones in a normal pattern when I´m doing it! The tables for meal times have moved up to the area underneath the main house so that they are more sheltered in the rainy season.
There are two new children at Colonia who are sisters; Elena, 4 and Cristina, 3. They´re both very happy and lively. Elena is a very caring older sister, if we´re doing something and Cristina isn´t there she will say "y para mi hermanita tambien!" (and for my sister too!) They´ve just bought a couple of new beds for them as well, they sleep in the room with Rosa and Camilla. There are lots of new small chairs now after Eleanor and Tom, an English couple who have now left, donated a bit of money.
It’s now the summer holidays so there isn´t any homework to do but we have been reading lots and working hard, varnishing the wood on the buildings and finishing off the piedrar work. We´ve also been making animal masks for when they do the Christmas show which I´ve gathered involves a lot of dancing and singing. Everyone is also looking forward to their annual camping trip!”
Thank you very much to Abi for her work at the project, and for keeping us up to date. We would also like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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