By Laura De Carlo | Fundraiser and volunteer
Kids in Huaycan are getting used to a new, enjoyable tradition: IBO volunteers visiting each year for a working summer camp. A three weeks’ full immersion with kids 5 to 16 (and some young men and women hosting their own inner child, too) filled up with lots of fun and hard working.
This summer’s schedule was hectic: hands-on craft workshops, soccer and volley with both kids and their parents, a field trip to Lima Archaeological Museum, a leisure everyone-in-the-pool-day, a cooking contest, and much more!
The most rewarding activity? Organizing the play “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, starring the younger kids of our community, and involving older kids and youths in staging, lighting, set designing, costume making.
What about the hardest? Surely flattening a portion of the steep terrain where our casita is placed, to create adequate space for children to play. It has been a whole day of hard working for everybody: parents, afterschool tutors, cooks … and even some really small kid who would not abide to be put aside!
IBO volunteers have come back home “tired but contented”, their luggage full of multicolored letters for our supporters, pictures, memories of their young, new friends.
Over all, the awareness of how important has been being there, having lunch together, sharing every moment of happiness or even frustration. The privilege of having dedicated those precious days of their life to a good cause.
Stay tuned, more news and pics are coming from Huaycan!
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