It’s been a really good week for creatively constructing
needed parts of the foundation. A lot of
the things we did this week was from found materials, donated materials, or had
money donated to buy materials. We have been really excited about all the stuff
we have be able to accomplish. A HUGE
thanks to our friend Chanp who decided to stay another week and keep helping.
Recent Projects:
·
Ripped down the fence in the front of the
foundation and replaced with a more open fence made from stick we found in the
street and in the foundation (This Was the biggest project of the week)
·
Extended one of the gardens and rebuild the
fence around it to be stronger and make the garden more accessible. Planted
more vegetables with the kids.
·
Made a small fence for the smaller garden, plus
a swivel door to enter the garden, its now much easier to get to either of the
gardens.
·
We took down the old door leading into the
foundation and put in door we made that is a hundred times better. We are buying a lot to put on it tomorrow.
·
Cleaned out a massive pile of old dying plants
and trees that were attracting bugs and possibly dangerous snakes
·
Cleaned out lots of glass (an entire bucket
full)
·
Built of some of the walls with the small amount
of funding we got from friends and family.
·
Pick axed rock to fill in flooring
·
Made a lock on the door to keep kids in during
class
· Chopping down the tree in the area where the
kitchen will be going (Proved myself as a strong woman and did most of it with a machete )
Weeding the gardens
·
Set up meetings with women to get surveys filled
out
·
Taught daily lessons, served lunch
·
Taught kids about throwing trash in the trash
can rather than the ground.
·
Created a Compost
A lot has happened over the past week. One of the days more kids showed up then I have ever seen, I
think it’s because all the stuff that has been happening at the foundation
. The kids just kept walking in the
door, we usually have more food then we need, and by the time we feed them all
there wasn’t enough food for us interns to eat (which was fine). A lot of the kids really want to get involved
in helping with anything we are doing with the foundation, and I have been
super impresses with the skills some of these kids have.
One thing that happened this week that was quite heart
breaking was a little girl showed up to the foundation, she had no shoes, no
underwear, reeked of urine, and was crying. She had a huge sore on the bottom
of her foot, she has cut herself but because she had no shoes it just stayed
dirty and infected. As soon as we saw it we cleaned it bandaged it and chanp
made her a little temporary shoe out of material he had. Turbaco is not the place to run around with no
shoes, there is trash and broken glass EVERYWHERE just in the foundation today
I collected an entire bucket of potentially dangerous trash; broken glass,
rusted old sharp cans, and barb wire. I am excited for all the shoes to come in
December, just wish there were coming soon so other incidences like this didn’t
happen.
