A resourful volleyball game using the Escuelita as the net!In this week´s entry, we´ll be unraveling the past 2 weeks en imagenes and showing how el Mes del Niño kicked off with International Children´s Day on 2 June... illustrating Cuéntamelo Todo´s 10 hour weekly sessions on the Plaza San Francisco and how, through this project, our kids are re-appropriating it para, justamente, ser niños ! ;0
MondayMuppet construction session from old donated socks (albeit a little large!), a couple of hand-made ties, happy & more serious cut-out mustaches, mismatched glittery eyes and woolly colourful hair...In a second, a couple of kids had pulled out the Mobile School´s teatrico and the show was on!
Tuesday
Exceptionally, we were out on the Plaza for the Dia del Niño to welcome kids from local schools who had been invited by the local authorities to partake in activities offered by the organisations part of this RED de la Niñez Callejizada. There were face mask & drawing activities as well as sporting & computer games surrounding a huge stage where music and clowns on stilts were animating the seated crowd. The Mobile School was a great source of attraction, both kids and their teachers came to interact (at times, overwhelmingly so!), we managed to count (or at least attempted to do so...) over 110 children in less than 3 hours!
WednesdayDespite the fact summer is meant to have started it was a little wet that day. Few kids showed up but those who were present advised us on how to set up tent and shelter the Escuelita for them to play...We finally decided against taking it out as it got rainier but found some time to warm up & play a few games before everyone shot off !
Thursday
While some were keen on understanding the rotas on the Mobile School (the kids in the picture w
e actually just met during the Dia del Niño and had invited them to visit us again...they showed up 2 days later!;0), others chose to relax by the mobile library and have a snooze beside its books...
e actually just met during the Dia del Niño and had invited them to visit us again...they showed up 2 days later!;0), others chose to relax by the mobile library and have a snooze beside its books...Monday
Using the Mobile School´s handle (with a home made extension!) and the Tianguez café´s door as posts, we secured a rope as net, marked the field with chalk, bought a new ball (as the local dog keeps on tearing our pelotas to shreds: 3 
consumed in less than 2 weeks!)...and ya listo para una partida de volley! Meanwhile, the creative ones kept the inspiration up on the Mobile School...
WednesdayGeoconda from the UMSC joined us to introduce the referal keychain we designed & are currently distributing to our kids through the 2nd wave of medical referrals, this time for dental checks. On the school was drawn a map of the plaza and a few local institutions for the kids to recognise where to go according to their needs..On the right, this was a little game of mimes on rights picked out of a bag...not exactly sure which right they were enacting there! ;0
Thursday A gorgeous sunny day that brought many kids to pop by, play various games simultaneously (volley, footy, skipping rope & the popular magnetic games), as you can see on the blog´s entry pic . Meanwhile, others chose to browse a few books before borrowing them for the week. We are actually being fairly successful in our book recovery search, with ¨thought-to-be-lost¨ ones even reappearing! ;0
See you soon!
See you soon!
