And so the story continues...

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

** PPA **

Written by: Volunteer Dick

And so the story continues..... after a great breakfast at the hotel we headed to the work site at PPA.

The formal meeting was held in our PPA office and then the daily tasks began. Sue and Anne headed off to work with the babies and little ones. A morning full of smiles, giggles dribble and feedings. Kristen, Kay and Bea started a craft program with the young girls aged 4 to 6 years. About 12 girls were in their charge. Greg Junior, headed off to his 2 hours plus marathon of football in the sun. I tried to fix the swings using rotting rope,

We toured the sites picking up straying children everywhere and then playing games with the 5 to 7 year old boys. Overall a good and hardworking morning was had by all...... and we were ready for the lunch break ... which once again was fantastic.

In the afternoon plans were in hand for the ËNCUENTIO DE HERMANOS program to attempt to get family siblings staying at PPA a chance to get together for an afternoon. Four families had been picked by the PPA management.

1- MOSCOSO family consisting of Jessica 10, Aquiles 16, Alberto 10, and Anna 5
2- TORRES family consisting of Lizaudio 5 and brotherArron 4.
3- FARFAN family consisting of Jefferson 5, Cielo 7 and Rosemary 10.
4- RONDON family consisting of Jesus 6, Maria del Carmen 5 and Claudia 4.

The team headed out to find these siblings only to discover that the daily structure had just been changed. Greg and I were able to locate the two boys from the Moscoso family and we spent the afternoon with these two spirited brothers. Aquiles has a hearing and speech problem but that did not stop us having a great afternoon of colouring, playing ball, dancing and learning a few magic tricks. I think the boys enjoyed their afternoon with us and especially getting one on one care.

As for the rest of the Global staff..... they joined the rest of the school aged approx 4 to 7 years ... and the nuns ... on an outside walking visit to the local recreation centre for an afternoon of sports activities.

Arriving back at the hotel around 5.30 to 6 pm.... some went to shower, some went to rest, and some of us wrote journals awaiting for dinner which tonight was at the hotel.