The end has come and gone. We hosted 10 volunteers from Tulane the last week of March. The group arrived on a Saturday, so we made it to the LIGA game on Sunday where our favorite professional soccer team won 1-0. They jumped right into program rotations on Monday. The group was broken down into 3 smaller groups to shadow the following programs: Children's English, Library/Teen Center, and Women's Exercise. They also completed several work projects for us. The volunteers painted two rooms in the Centro-- the English classroom and the soon-to-be Preventative Health Center on the third foor. They helped us design bookshelves for the upstairs rooms, they deep-cleaned the library, and they designed and painted a mural for the homework corner of the library. In between working hard on projects, learning about and running programs, and seeing community development firsthand, they went on several cultural outings to learn more about Ecuador. The volunteers were awesome and we would all agree that we could have taken a little more of the craziness of Spring Break if that meant they would stay longer. A picture is worth a thousand words, so I'll let the following tell you a little be more about their trip:
Sonia and I are so pumped to have Tulane finally here (plus LIGA was winning)
The volunteers on our tour of Old Town
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