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Thursday, April 10, 2008
Volunteering - Saciar #2
Because Brechtje has her Spanish course, I will be by myself to do the volunteering work at Saciar for the next 2 weeks.
Today day I went to a suburb called Vallejuelos. Here, Saciar helps 155 children and 20 elderly people.
Vallejuelos is situated on the north-western hills of Medellin and like many things in Colombia is a place of contrasts. The makeshift homes that litter the slopes of the mountain are in sharp contrast to the “metro cable”, a modern cable card less than a month old; designed to connect the people from this area to the “Metro” system.
I found the children here more distant and more difficult to control than at the previous place. As Beatriz explained later, the children usually reflect in their behavior what they see and experience at home, at school and on the street. Underneath that, they are still grateful and very sweet kids in need of love and affection.
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Comments:
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on a map i found out in what area you “work”
and also that Medellin is a very old city (1638)with a long history. Do you see this in the buildings etc.?