School Holidays
The school holidays started for the
children at Ratu Meli last week, with many of them heading back to the mainland
to compete in the rugby and netball tournaments. This was a great opportunity for the volunteers to get stuck
in continuing to redecorate the classrooms. The Elmer the Elephant themed room for Class 5 was complete,
so we started work on Class 6. The
room was dull, colourless and certainly not an inspiring setting for the
children to learn in. We agreed upon a Peter Pan theme, as this is a book that
the children will be starting to read and one that provides much room for
imagination. After hours of hard work over the last two weeks Class 6 is now ready and we can't wait for the children to return to this week and see their new classroom!
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| Class 6 |
On the days we didn’t spend painting we were running a ‘Holiday Club’ for the children to keep them busy and
entertained whilst off school. The
first village we visited was Vuaki, a beautiful little village on the island of
Matacawalevu. We set up four stations within the community hall and the
volunteers helped the children create various arts and crafts projects. The children had an amazing time - they
made masks, headdresses with cotton wool to look like bunny ears, colourful
bracelets and they had their faces painted too! The children even tried their hands at this and ended up
painting Jack’s face.
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| Holiday club |
On another day we visited the stunning
village of Malakati. Every beach I
see here in the Yasawas takes my breath away, but here the beach was on another
level! The village is situated
with the most breath-taking hills behind it and looks out onto the most
perfect, unspoilt beach I have ever seen. Once again, we were allowed to use the
village’s community hall to run the Holiday Club. As the masks and face painting were so successful in Vuaki,
we decided to do these again. Manu
brought along his guitar and played nursery rhymes for the children, which was
great fun. In the end the children persuaded Manu to play them some Justin
Bieber which they all loved!
This month it is the
‘Debris month of action’ so we decided to incorporate two beach cleans into the
kids clubs at Naisisili and Nacula.
The children came to the community halls, had their faces painted green,
and off we went down to the beach where we all picked up all the litter laying
around upon the beach. Our new
staff member, Esava, who specializes in agriculture and sustainability, then
spoke to the children regarding the importance of appropriate waste disposal
and recycling; something that does not usually receive a great amount of
attention. A special blog about our beach clean will follow...
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