Week five review!

Bread over fire was a very popular activity among the children. We had around 25 children on Tuesday and Thursday we reached around 40 children, so the word spread fast!

We were incredibly lucky with the weather this week, the sun was almost shining from a cloudless blue sky, which was a very important factor in our activity becoming as successful as it was.

Our volunteer Julie, who has been a scout in her earlier years, made the perfect bonfire for the bread we were cooked on sticks over the fire.
Before we started baking the bread we talked with the children about how to bake them and how the bread bakes better over the ember and not directly in the flames. But it still took some practice before the bread was moved out from the flames and over the embers instead. Therefore, the second bread they made, with its golden brown color, indicated very clearly that they learned how to use the bonfire in the best possible way.
It was great to see the happiness in the children's faces after they accomplished the task of making their own bread and several children expressed that it was some of the best bread they have ever tasted.

This Thursday the French/Ecuadorian freelance photographer Natalie Ayala joined us on Equipo Verde. We have been in contact with her for a long time and she has been very interested in covering the project. At the moment she working on a project where she creates a debate about the contamination of petroleum in the Amazon through the pictures she has been taking the past year. We are very honored to have her come by our project and cover it!

From week five we will like to thank our volunteers:
Tuesday: Julie (Denmark) and Armando (Ecuador).
Thursday: Julie (Denmark), Señora Anita (citizen from Guápulo) and Natalie (French/Ecuador).