Book Bus Ecuador 2
Posted
by
Jenny
on 26 Jul 2010
Another week and here we are!!!!! doing our best to have more kids reading in this area. This week we had the ordinary timetable. As a team thought that the best way to motivate is not have a mass of kids with us since this could be very distracting.
We always have children a bit hyperactive that disturb the activities and make the others lose concentration on what they do so, we were working with groups of 5 kids.
It worked very well, sometimes some groups were difficult due to the education level and the family conflicts but we also felt rewarded when some groups did not want to stop reading. We found difficult the fact that kids here are not encouraged to be creative.
This makes our work a bit hard but we are not discouraged by that instead we are trying to find ways to develop that in order to have a kid wishing to read and travel in the magic life of the tales they read. We have used drawings these last two weeks.
The following two weeks we are thinking of working with collages and possibly we are creating a few things to make them create their own stories.
Raquel left yesterday and we had a new volunteer ready to accept the challenge. In one of the places we buy things a lady asked if we can read to children not part of the schools we visit with the project and we are starting tomorrow afternoon having the bus on the main street of Puerto López for those who want to join us for the reading. The volunteers are happy with the idea so soon the bus will be very well known in the area as THE BOOK BUS.
During the activities at the schools I found very motivating when I told them that the drawings might be going to Africa to be seen by African Children. I always tell them that we have other buses like ours in Africa with volunteers doing the same thing we do here. They are happy with the idea.
I told them that I would like to read that to children of other provinces and even translate them and send together with the original to the book bus in Africa. I consider this to be a big motivation and the children feel important to know that something they do is going to be read in other places and other countries.