April 10 update from Liz, one of our interns at El Bichito:
Today here at El Bichito we thought it would be nice if we could teach the kids the importance of helping out in the community. Here in Peru you don't find a lot of garbage cans, so sometimes there can be a lot of garbage on the ground. We (the interns) thought it would be fun if we got the kids to do a garbage clean up day to help clean up the community here in Puylucana.
We made it into to a game to make it more fun for the children. Everyone split up into two teams. The team who picked up the most trash around El Bichito would be the winners. All the kids got plastic bags to use as gloves and then one big bag for the trash. We had a ten minute time limit and we had to stay close to El Bichito and pick up as much trash as we could. It was so fun watching all the kids running around looking for trash and working together to pick it up. Some one would be holding the bag and the other kids worked together to fill it.
We had about twenty kids participating, even little Gwilso (3) helped his team pick up trash. Each team picked up at least 3 big bags of trash. I was so proud of each of the kids for all that they did and for working so well together in their teams. After the kids all received a treat for all their hard work.
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