Saturday, March 12, 2011
Talk about community involvement. The pilot community “Barrio Bella Vista” where we implemented the organic and inorganic project (trashcans) all worked together today to improve their neighborhood.
First we went into the campo with a member of the community to get some cana to build the park. In the afternoon we started building. Using rope, old tires and the cana we made 3 swings. At first it was just our group and a few of the neighborhood kids watching. What we really wanted was everyone in the community to work together and at first that didn’t seem like it was going to happen but little by little people joined in as they saw what we were doing and the joy it brought to the kids. We were weeding a back area to make a clear space for a soccer field and most of the dads worked on this (those who know how to use machetes). Some worked on cutting wood pieces to make “pasamanos” or monkey bars and “subibajas” or see-saws. We had a second group of community members walk down the hill (the neighborhood is on the top of a hill and when it rains it is really hard to climb up, they have to park their cars at the bottom) and use stones to fill in the holes and make a nice path to fix the road. From 2pm until after the sun went down (7:30pm) everyone was working hard in the neighborhood—kids, men, women, and us. It was super great to see. Unfortunately I couldn’t capture it on camera
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