Jincana y Teatro

This Friday the volunteers threw a party for the children. We had some guest come in to entertain the children. They did a magic show, musical chairs, thearte and some dancing. We had 46 children turn up in total and they all had a good time participating in the activites. To finish the day they had pancakes made by the volunteers and a goody bag filled with pencils, pens and other goodies. Brilliant day.

Latest news from the projects...

The Casa of Intiwawa is now up and running! There is electricity and running water in the Intiwawa house. We also just bought some new furniture for the house, so we can work better with the kids.

Every Monday - Thursday Intiwawa runs ‘Tareas’ - an opportunity for the local children to come along to the house, receive help with their homework in a warm and friendly environment, read books and have a hot homemade meal. Our volunteers are able to spend quality time with the children, teaching them valuable life lessons such as teeth cleaning and recycling of waste. 

A few weeks ago the kids had two week of school holidays, ‘Vacaciones’, so we altered our usual routine and arranged a variety of activities for the children. Workshops such as painting, theatre, treasure hunts and a mini Olympic Games encouraged the Intiwawa children to work together and to develop existing bonds between themselves and the staff. 

This week we held a fundraising-party in one of the local clubs.The fundraising-party ´fiesta de anitifaces´ was a great success. We had about 350 people at the fiesta! Thanks to the collaboration of the party-people and the helping hands of the volunteers we are now able to improve our work and projects with the kids.

CASA INTIWAWA 

We will start posting new updates again from the IntiWawa projects. Here are some updates from the last couple of months, you can also find old messages on the tumblr-blog:

http://intiwawa.tumblr.com/  For practical reason we switched back to this blog!

A small overview of one of our biggest project so far: 

In january the construction of CASA INTIWAWA started, after a sacred ritual and planting of the first brick stone :-) The picture shows Intiwawa president Susana Ramos with her father and the contractor of casa Intiwawa.

after that they rapidly started constructing the house, here some pictures of the progression:

By this time it was end of february, the contruction was ready for the placing of the roof. A special occasion here in Peru, and another reason to celebrate. Volunteers, friends of intiwawa and the people of the village helped with the contruction of the roof...this all happened in 1 day!! Some pictures of the event:

After that a lot more needed to be done, after all Rome wasnt build in one day either :-) Here are some pictures of March till June:

In june it was almost finished:

and then july 8th 2012 it was time for the grand opening of Casa IntiWawa!!

and more pictures of the finished house :-)