Over the last 2 weeks, we have been doing a fair bit of artistic and manual stuff. Miguel our local artista and Gaby & Lore from the Defensoria del Pueblo came to respectively carry out activities that would make us reflect a little on our creativity and where it sits, and how we can safeguard our rights by loo
king after and listening to one another.
As you can see, we hunted down the town for over 30 boxes that we undid and repackaged for the kids to have a spotless surface to express their artistic selves in 3D…some colourful hands, trousers and faces also emerged out of this rather demanding exercise. The challenge there was also working along the other, avoiding spilling paint pots or greedy fingertips on the neighbour along with obtaining ¨la palabra mágica¨ (which is also an eternal battle with some!;0), namely ¨gracias¨ through the reaching & snatching hands... At the end of Miguel´s activity, when most had gone to play on the plaza with the school or the pelota, a few organized souls took to ingeniously organizing the art in the shape of the Mobile School…or a little a smaller, longer, and lighter version of it!
With Gaby and Lore, we weren´t so lucky with the weather but managed to anticipate the aguacero! We took the Mobile School out without the tent, as that means we generally get stranded beneath it with a gang of freezing children calling for a nasty cold …It is actually m
eant to be the summer season here with holidays that have kicked in but it is actually pretty grey, cold and wet most afternoons now which does not make it very easy to work from the street. ..
So once the girls arrived, we shot up to the Convent where we had been given the go-ahead to seek shelter and divvied up in 3 groups to draw in silence parts of a person. That was the only information given to us. As you will see, out came a rather long-legged and bodied boy, with a skirt, and rather imaginative shoes. The exercise was interesting to observe, each kid added something of his or her own and out of a joi
nt effort was born Santiago. From the descriptions and little details observed, the role models and aspirations were also very telling.
Over the last couple of weeks we have taken to recycling the papers to the stickers on which each kid has his or her name written…with these, Monica our social worker has been coming up with origami activities from little ships to frogs …so along with the origami boards that the Mobile School has to offer, we inv
ited the kids to take up our recycled papers to be creative…once a couple of figures were created, a frog race was on!
This week, we will be a little short on the team side as most of Cefistas have passed their exams with flying colours so will be attending their graduation ceremonies. We will have to cope as this is for a good cause, but the streets are currently pretty full of kids on holidays, looking for activities, with or without their parents, as well as within and without working hours…
As part of their series ¨El Patio de Fe y Alegría¨, our main partner in Cuéntamelo Todo, la Radio Publica del Ecuador (100.9 FM) will be coming this week to cover one of our sessions in vivo…We´ll let you know when it goes on air! ;=0
king after and listening to one another.As you can see, we hunted down the town for over 30 boxes that we undid and repackaged for the kids to have a spotless surface to express their artistic selves in 3D…some colourful hands, trousers and faces also emerged out of this rather demanding exercise. The challenge there was also working along the other, avoiding spilling paint pots or greedy fingertips on the neighbour along with obtaining ¨la palabra mágica¨ (which is also an eternal battle with some!;0), namely ¨gracias¨ through the reaching & snatching hands... At the end of Miguel´s activity, when most had gone to play on the plaza with the school or the pelota, a few organized souls took to ingeniously organizing the art in the shape of the Mobile School…or a little a smaller, longer, and lighter version of it!
With Gaby and Lore, we weren´t so lucky with the weather but managed to anticipate the aguacero! We took the Mobile School out without the tent, as that means we generally get stranded beneath it with a gang of freezing children calling for a nasty cold …It is actually m
eant to be the summer season here with holidays that have kicked in but it is actually pretty grey, cold and wet most afternoons now which does not make it very easy to work from the street. ..So once the girls arrived, we shot up to the Convent where we had been given the go-ahead to seek shelter and divvied up in 3 groups to draw in silence parts of a person. That was the only information given to us. As you will see, out came a rather long-legged and bodied boy, with a skirt, and rather imaginative shoes. The exercise was interesting to observe, each kid added something of his or her own and out of a joi
nt effort was born Santiago. From the descriptions and little details observed, the role models and aspirations were also very telling.Over the last couple of weeks we have taken to recycling the papers to the stickers on which each kid has his or her name written…with these, Monica our social worker has been coming up with origami activities from little ships to frogs …so along with the origami boards that the Mobile School has to offer, we inv
ited the kids to take up our recycled papers to be creative…once a couple of figures were created, a frog race was on!This week, we will be a little short on the team side as most of Cefistas have passed their exams with flying colours so will be attending their graduation ceremonies. We will have to cope as this is for a good cause, but the streets are currently pretty full of kids on holidays, looking for activities, with or without their parents, as well as within and without working hours…
As part of their series ¨El Patio de Fe y Alegría¨, our main partner in Cuéntamelo Todo, la Radio Publica del Ecuador (100.9 FM) will be coming this week to cover one of our sessions in vivo…We´ll let you know when it goes on air! ;=0
