Hi everyone! as you are?
now almost a month in Colombia, particularly in Cartagena. We currando volunteers. Me in a Colombian Foundation is number 1 on housing projects for the poor. It is very Tocha, you only say that it is building 25,000 homes! Uschi
and Jorge projects but also are different from mine.
Today only speak for me ...
Here I am giving a talk on women and mothers of a new district officer proección homes being built, which explains the rules of coexistence, it
tell them their rights and obligations, helping them to form neighboring community and to clarify their functions and much more.
The people featured in the photos are displaced (people who have fled the countryside by guerrillas and paramilitaries) and relocated (families living in illegal slums that have collapsed or are in danger.) They are the first to arrive at their new homes. 147 families. 24800 families are still missing for the next 10 years.
The houses are 36m2 with a painted facade, but the rest are supplied unpainted and without doors or finish or anything, come on, that any of us think it's a shame, but you would have to see people's reactions when they open the doors of their new home ..... Some have spent two years waiting for the moment! Give thanks to God, crying with emotion, kissed the ground, sweep, half dead put a small plant, hang a picture old and wrinkled and happier than a holy Easter!
is also true that there are families who come from a 3-acre ranch with horses, cows, pigs, chickens, crops and peasant life (considering hard but also a blessing from God) and now I have mixed up in this shoebox, with neighbors, asphalt and social environment "difficult." It is clear that rain never please everyone!
The part I like is to be with them, explain things patiently to make them see the good and bad of everything, delusions (realistically) with new projects and motivate them to succeed. It's pretty cool as I hear some people and the efforts made to try to give their children a better life than they have, and it found difficulties of all colors and fall a thousand times, but get up and go back to walk ...
But as always, are the children who give me more pain and joy. I have been with children who have suffered direct consequences of the attacks by the guerrillas and make your hair stand on end. I thought it had bottomed out with what I saw in Nepal (sniffing children), but you do not realize how bad it can be the man until he sees reflected in the eyes of a child who stole the innocence with violence, killing and etc. I'd rather not mention ...
On the other hand, are the children who returned a smile when I need it. Some days I'm talking about or as people, to 39 º C without even a vetilador, with ratings of 1% of these .. and when I reach my limit of patience, I'm going and I get to play with the children whatever. Here with a stick, a plastic and two stones and a thousand games work wonders! I am the gringo who speaks I'm possessed rare and because my eyes are not black like them .... jajajja.
times in my office, which lately are many, I'm making a communication plan both internally and externally very interesting. I am doing as an external consultant and I are "exploding" in various fields. I never thought that 7 years in Campofrio could be as valuable as experience.
Here I am giving a talk on women and mothers of a new district officer proección homes being built, which explains the rules of coexistence, it
tell them their rights and obligations, helping them to form neighboring community and to clarify their functions and much more. The people featured in the photos are displaced (people who have fled the countryside by guerrillas and paramilitaries) and relocated (families living in illegal slums that have collapsed or are in danger.) They are the first to arrive at their new homes. 147 families. 24800 families are still missing for the next 10 years.
The houses are 36m2 with a painted facade, but the rest are supplied unpainted and without doors or finish or anything, come on, that any of us think it's a shame, but you would have to see people's reactions when they open the doors of their new home ..... Some have spent two years waiting for the moment! Give thanks to God, crying with emotion, kissed the ground, sweep, half dead put a small plant, hang a picture old and wrinkled and happier than a holy Easter!
is also true that there are families who come from a 3-acre ranch with horses, cows, pigs, chickens, crops and peasant life (considering hard but also a blessing from God) and now I have mixed up in this shoebox, with neighbors, asphalt and social environment "difficult." It is clear that rain never please everyone!
The part I like is to be with them, explain things patiently to make them see the good and bad of everything, delusions (realistically) with new projects and motivate them to succeed. It's pretty cool as I hear some people and the efforts made to try to give their children a better life than they have, and it found difficulties of all colors and fall a thousand times, but get up and go back to walk ...
But as always, are the children who give me more pain and joy. I have been with children who have suffered direct consequences of the attacks by the guerrillas and make your hair stand on end. I thought it had bottomed out with what I saw in Nepal (sniffing children), but you do not realize how bad it can be the man until he sees reflected in the eyes of a child who stole the innocence with violence, killing and etc. I'd rather not mention ...
On the other hand, are the children who returned a smile when I need it. Some days I'm talking about or as people, to 39 º C without even a vetilador, with ratings of 1% of these .. and when I reach my limit of patience, I'm going and I get to play with the children whatever. Here with a stick, a plastic and two stones and a thousand games work wonders! I am the gringo who speaks I'm possessed rare and because my eyes are not black like them .... jajajja.
times in my office, which lately are many, I'm making a communication plan both internally and externally very interesting. I am doing as an external consultant and I are "exploding" in various fields. I never thought that 7 years in Campofrio could be as valuable as experience.
I thought volunteering would be a little calm Caribbean style, but we're going to 200!
This city is characterized by contrasts and above all that we Viviene us. Monday through Friday I feel illiterate, with people who are missing $ 2 to pay a water bill and mothers who can not afford the bus for your child to go to school (bus worth Eur 0.25) and the weekend, however, our contacts we Colombians onvitan their boats, to race, to their homes with private beaches and in style. In short, many meditation to find inner balance and then live these contrasts! so is imposibleeeeeee!! I'll let Uschi
tell her things, but as a rough for the blog, and I said he is happy, helping people, doing training, marketing plans, product catalogs for microenterprises, and many more ... And Jorge is working in a school on an island out there, and helping food-related micro-enterprises. Here every crazy to your topic! and George still comes home to cook tooooodos forces day. Thanks george ...
I leave also this link with some pics we are filing for that you see a little more than Cartagena.
Kisses to all! Robert
Kisses to all! Robert
www.IntermonOxfam.org 
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