COTA Blog

Children of the Andes now has a blog so that we can keep you properly up to date with our latest news from Colombia and fundraising ideas from the UK.

http://childrenoftheandesblog.wordpress.com/

"When we arrived, there were 6 children sitting patiently round a table, with a large plastic sheet stretched out, and Isabel was pouring a small pile of flour in front of each child. They looked on curiously, wondering what the flour was for.  Isabel announced that today they were going to make a "cake" from flour and glue! The children giggled, but waited eagerly for the next step....

 ...They were then instructed to start mixing and kneading the mixture until they had a dough-like texture. This caused lots more giggles and not a little consternation on the part of one little girl who wasn't keen on "getting her hands dirty", but with gentle encouragement from Isabel, she soon dug in and her hands became covered in a gloriously sticky mess of flour and glue.  Slowly but surely the mixture changed to a dough, and became more manageable, all the while the children chattered away, making jokes, telling stories and asking questions.

It didn't matter in the slightest to them that Sandro couldn't see, that Sofía had trouble communicating, that Peter couldn't hear, or that Henry had a learning difficulty.  They were children having fun, sharing ideas and learning new things."

Extract from "A visit to COTA Project, HRBC Foundation"