About two weeks ago, Ana from Brazil and Phil from London came to Porvenir with great ambitions in mind. In their last project, they built a playground in Kenya, Africa and they have now found themselves in El Porvenir, Honduras. The “Playgrounds for Change” would be a community based project and would be built next to the Kinder. Posters were hung around town advertising community involvement in constructing the park. It would last three days including a snack and lunch each day. Although rain haltered construction, people were still present and wanting to work. Kids were shouting our names at our house when we weren’t there during the rain. As construction was in process the kids were running everywhere, from coloring inside the Kinder, to playing on the wood planks and finding whatever they could to go wild with. Once the slide was put in place, there was no stopping them. Six hours later and they were still on the slide. Then the swinging bridge was put up, finally the swings and a rope ladder. Hours upon hours they spent on that thing. It was relaxing for us since we were no longer depended on as their source of entertainment. We no longer had to play “horsey”, or run races, or be a human jungle gym. Once the majority of it was finished, the kids got to hand print with paint on the playground. The final project looks great and the kids can’t get enough of it.
Excuse the short blog, I have to deal with the rat family in our house…
