Photos of the Kids

Ok, here is the real reson we made a blog in the first place: to show photos of the kids we are working with in Ecuador. We are going to Markets and playing with kids who would otherwise be of working (mind you, they are only 2-12 years old). Here are some pictures of the kids. Only the younger kids are featured in these photos, though, because the older ones started school this week.

Every day starts with hand washing and face washing. Kids get alittle to excited about this, and everyone is pretty much drenched in water for the rest of our time with them. This is annoying, since everyone also wants to sit in your lap.

As I said, there is a certain fasiation about the face washing materials. Here are some kids playing with the towel.

Here is one of the UBECI staff attemting to teach the kids the memory game. While they understand the idea of finding pairs, they don´t quite get that it is not ok to cheat and look when it is not your turn.

Drawing is the aparent highlite of the day. This girl just got here ration of paper...

More dilagent drawing.

A girl being entertained by José (Joe), who is singing.
And here is a girl. And a wall.

Towards the end of the session, everyone sings together, or rather, everyone shouts together to some sybalence of a tune, with the goal being to make as much noise as possible.

Normaly, at the end of our session, the kids just get a mandarine. Today, though, they got "pancitos (it translates to "little bread", but is basicly just a sweet roll) and yogurt. This was actual a very good thing, since one of the kids (not in this picture) was complaining of severe stomach pain, which turned out to be from hunger.