The following is a post from Leslie, an intern at Semillas de Amor, about her first week in Columbia:
Meeting Uris, the founder of the organization, was a high point of my first day as an intern. She is wonderfully patient and genuinely interested in helping the kids of Turbaco, Colombia. She is well organized and has profiles on the kids that describe their background information. To include more information on the kids she had me type up a more detailed form in a nearby internet café. Her dedication to keep costs low is noticeable as she wanted to walk to another store to purchase cheaper copies of the form.
The kids at the site are very energetic, but they did not cooperate well at first which made it difficult for us to organize games. Later on in the first week we hit a breakthrough with coloring books and crayons. I have never seen kids so quiet and peaceful after being so energetic, it was great to see.
We also helped them with homework; for the most part we help with mathematics. They use a different system here so we were a bit confused on how to assist them at first. After consulting with Oswaldo, Uris’ husband, it was easier to correct the problems and explain it to the kids.
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