Thursday 17 December 2009

Monte A - Peru

It has been a busy past few days as we settled in to the Womens House in Huandoy.

On Monday we began our community work which consisted of painting a mural for a local milk program. This program provides up to 200 children a week with milk that has fruit in it. The mural which was to be located outside of the kitchen had to encourage the children to drink milk. Izzy (our art captian) was in charge of designing, painting and figuring out a slogan in spanish. We all assisted to her to the best of our ability and rewarded our hard work with many trips to the local shops to get supplies of oreos and inca cola. We manged to complete the painting in one day and Ben and Mr McHugh hung up the mural for all to see.

The next day we were able to visit a local private high school that had assisted in the Chocolatada on Sunday. It was a great experience to be able to "mingle" with kids our own age and learn about their lives. Getting to know each other games were played, Inca Cola was served and facebooks and email adresses were exhanges. In the afternoon we had another Chocolatada this time with only 80 children. We managed to entertain them by playing with balloons and teaching the children the"Hokey Pokey". After that we changed houses to our new residence which is the House in Tres de Maio. We all ready miss Huandoy and its hot water showers and spacious sleeping area but we are sure we will come to love Tres de Maio as much as we Huandoy.

Today we went to Cerro Candala the third womens house. In the same area as this womens house was a medical center and a childrens house. At the childrens house we were treated to songs and dance and in return we feed more hot chocolate and sang them a few of our own christmas carrols. Before visiting the medical center we had lunch at the womens house. Here we had an amazing lunch and watched many dancing performances. Best of all for desert we had jelly and ice cream. Visiting the medical center inspired us to continue a fund raising efforts next year as we see the need for the money and plan to raise money to buy and ultrasound machine. Afterwards we had a walk around the local area were meet the local people and saw a glimpse into their homes. It was an eye-opening experience and one we will never forget. We have much planned for our last few days at the house and we are sure we will enjoy it.
Adios!

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