Having fun during the summer !!

During the long summer holiday, which runs between January and early March, SKIP organised a seven week summer-school programme that involved amongst other things, traditional dance, drama, music, football and English classes. All manner of workshops were available the children to try their hands at. They could each chose between 2 and 3 workshops, with three hours of lessons a week per workshop. Professional coaches in dance and football came to work with the children and Joseph McCullagh, our volunteer from Ireland, ran a very successful English class, which saw the emergence of one or two very promising linguists.

A party was held on the last Friday of February, to mark the end of the holidays and an enjoyable summer school programme. The location was a recreational complex not too far away from the SKIP office in Rio Seco. It was a chance for the children to exhibit some of the new talents they had learnt over the past seven weeks. There was a display of art works, a dramatic performance, some short speeches in English and a volleyball competition. This was followed by a sack race for volunteers, in which Joshua Allsup - a Peace Corps volunteer, who has been volunteering with us for the last two years - won a hard earnest first place for America. Afterwards the children played and swam in the pool or chilled out in the shade, and fun team building activities were organised for the mothers.