One of our projects is in a place called Coporaque which is 3 hours away by bus up in the Colca Canyon. Up until last weekend there has been a project on Saturdays where the older kids were learning how to make a newspaper by writing articles and taking photos. The paper should be ready this week and the plan is to give it to the kids from San Isidro and Salinas to read about the goings on of their fellow Intiwawa students in Coporaque.
It is a very important component of Intiwawa for all the kids from all the places to learn about each others cultures and different living conditions.
For example in Coporaque we are currently working out of a cement classroom with no desks or chairs or a whiteboard so we have to improvise our lessons a lot more than in San Isidro and Salinas.
But we have recently bought a printer mainly to make copies and also posters to decorate the walls so it's looking nicer than it was. And next week hopefully we will have a whiteboard!
Also we have added some temporary tables which has made teaching English on Sundays much easier!
The older kids can now introduce themselves (name, age, country and favourite colour) in English which is so great and hopefully by the end of next week they will be able to talk about their family and their house.
Coporaque is a beautiful place and hopefully the kids can use knowledge gained from Intiwawa to improve their lives!
