My Journey Round The World

So after a wonderfull night in the bus, I finally reach Cochabamba and was picked up by Ainhoa, one of the Spanish volonteer, who bring me to SOLIDARIDAD – http://www.solidaridadbolivia.org – where Sister Adelina was kindly waiting for me. SOLIDARIDAD is a group of Catholics promoted and coordinated by the Daughters of Cariad of San Vicente de Paul. Its purpose is to welcome and care for the urgent needs of the people without resources and in situation of social necessity and exclusion, fomenting the coordination of the different social services connected with the church and public, and impelling the creation, in each one of the Parishes, of equipment of Social Pastoral, with the last aim to bring back to consciousness to the Christian community of Cochabamba, being stimulated its commitment with the exclusion realities. Big programme! Hope you get it all!

As it is the end of the year, they don’t have that much project going on at the moment, plus I’m not staying long enough for a real project. However, they need hands for preparing presents for penniless people or the one at the hospital. So I gave a little hand with the 2 other Spanish volonteers: Ainhoa & Alvaro, filling up bags with food such as : rice, pasta, sugar, oil, sardine, biscuits, sweets, popcorn – really famous here! – or even soap, toothbrush, comb…

Sister Adelina also found me a small voluntary job at the school Madre de dios in a class with kids from 4 to 5 years old. First 2 days were quite hard as it was really difficult for me to get a word! – I totaly overestimate my capacity to get my Spanish back!!! - I’m eventually starting to get use to it and working with kids is great, even though I wouldn’t like to do it all year round!