BUILD A PLAY CENTER FOR CHILDREN IN ARGENTINA

Dear donors,

Thanks to the many donations we have received to construct the playing center we have today a beautiful place and it is full of happy children that play there from Monday to Friday.  They love their place and say it is like their home.  We are increasing the amount of children up to 50 children.  We have started with a group of fifteen children but that number has increased so much due to the beautiful place they have and the love they receive from the coordinators of the playing center.

We enclose some pictures of what they have been doing lately. The children have a beautiful place outside to play.  Some of them prefer to be out there playing with a ball or with toys, and they also paint outside.

We have a volunteer that goes every week to teach knitting to the girls.  They love and enjoy knitting a lot!

We also started a new project called A HEART BOX TO EXPRESS WHAT YOU NEED OR WHAT YOU WANT.  They love to have their own space to express in their notebooks what they feel.  Some write and others make pictures.  In each HEART BOX there is a copybook and pencils.  Each child has put his or her name on the cover of the HEART BOX.  It is a great experience for the children and they are trained to get in touch with their feelings, fears and all what they are living.  Enclosed are some pictures of the bookcase full of HEART BOXES and some children with their new copybooks and pencils.

With regard to the July Bonus Day Campaign, we are going to register again this year because it is a great opportunity to keep on growing with our construction.  We would like to construct the upper floor in order to have more children.  We are very grateful with you all becaus thanks to you all this dream has come true and will continue receiving more children that deserve a happy childhood.

I send you my best regards and you will soon hear from us,

Andrea Mettler

Executive Director