Thursday, November 29, 2007

Medicines Arrive

Roxanne Walsh of Calgary, our most recent visitor to Project Ix-canaan, volunteered to bring with her a shipment of medicines paid for by Friends of Ix-canaan, and eye medications donated by Sonja Hagemann, all of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.


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A Birthday Party!

Many of the children of the village don't enjoy a special celebration on their birthdays, as a matter of fact, many of them didn't even know when their birthdays were, so Marilyn and Joe decided to hold a
BIRTHDAY PARTY for EVERYONE!

A few days before the party, each child took home a paper to have his/her mother write out their date of birth.
The papers were then posted on a chart.

The class area was decorated with balloons and streamers.

Two cakes were baked by a couple of residents of the village.

Each child was invited to place a candle on one of the cakes.



Carolyn and Marilyn light the candles.

The group sang "Happy Birthday to You"

and shared the cakes.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Finished Beads!!



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Making Beads

After the children saw how much fun it was to string beads, they were really looking forward to actually MAKING their own beads. Each child was given some play dough, flour to roll it in, and a stick to make the hole in their beads.


Each child showed their own talents and style.
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Cute Kids #3

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Stringing Beads

The kids loved stringing beads to make their own necklaces.


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New Volunteers

I recently received an unexpected e-mail from Marilyn Baeza Ponce from Chile and Joe Golinveaux from California who were travelling through the area and wanted to spend some time volunteering.

It turned out that Joe had had previous experience teaching English, and was able to design and teach a program that was of great benefit to some of the young people of the neighborhood who need to learn English for their school programs.

Marilyn, who works as a Doula in Chile (she supports women through the entire childbirth experience) jumped with enthusiam into the children's programs.
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Yoga to Begin Each Day

Each day's classes begin with some basic yoga exercises. The kids enjoy them very much.



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Play Dough

There has been a bit of a gap in blogging while our satelite system has been down, so I have lots of pictures of things the kids have been doing over the last couple of weeks. I'll begin with the day of "Play Dough", which Georgia mixed up from flour, salt and water. It was a huge success ... the kids loved it.









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Bill Bevan Volunteers



Bill Bevan, Georgia's partner and photographer/archeologist/guide in the Peak District, England (see http://www.visitpeakdistrict.com/ for more information on this interesting area), has been helping the village to prepare for Festival Unificacion Maya, a community sponsored celebration at Winter Solstice. His next project is to photograph and prepare the materials for a Recipe Book that the Grupo Femenino is now putting together.
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