Category: Blog

  • Making Name Tags

    Although she has been helping out over the last few days of classes, today, Georgia Litherland, of Sheffield, England was prepared to begin teaching a multi-faceted class of kids from…

  • And Storytime

    This is a vision I have had of the function of the library for quite some time. None of these children have books in their home or school, and thus,…

  • Happy Birthday Georgia!

    Georgia Litherland and Bill Bevan arrived from England this past week, and plan to be here volunteering for the next 6 weeks. It was Georgia’s birthday a couple of days…

  • Canadian Thanksgiving

    I completely forgot about Thanksgiving this year. Fortunately, where food is concerned, I have some kind of “inner guidance system”. I awoke on Thanksgiving morning with a craving for stuffing.…

  • An Environmental Class

    I synchronistically met Eva Oleksinska on her way to Gringo Perdido the other day and discovered that she was open to various volunteer opportunities. I invited her to visit Project…

  • Making Paper

    On the second day, Eva blended up old pieces of paper and gave each child a small cupful. Each child used a spatula to spread out the paper mash on…

  • The Results

    Eva used a Project Ix-canaan stamp to make cards for each of the Recycled Paper Post Cards to give the kids an idea of how they can make this kind…