At the end of May I went with my counterparts in the Comvida office and the Grupo de Teatro Maizales to an ophanage in Moreceli, El Paraiso - which is about 40 minutes from Danli. The director of this orphanage, Erika, is a buckeye herself, from my hometown of Columbus, Ohio. I found out about this orhanage because her husband Sergio, works at an elementary school that I volunteered at in Columbus Sergio told me about the orphange, and asked if I wanted to come and check it out. Also as it turns out there is a different group of volunteers that come from Columbus to the orphanage every three months, which I think is really cool.
Montana de Luz is an ophanage for orphaned or abandoned children, the majority living with HIV. For more information on the orphanage, you can visit the website. www.montanadeluz.org
For the theatre workshop, we divided them into two groups: children and adolescents. We taught them about theatre, using space, becoming a character, and finding and portraying different emotions. We put them into grous and helped them create and perform skits. Then we performed one of our own. The feedback afterward was good. The kids enjoyed the workshop.
*pictures to come later :)
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