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    Using board games to build community

    Day 57

    The Students That Game Together Stay Together

    Hello, hello! Welcome back to La Chacra, where we’ve got a day full of laughter and fun ahead of us.

    Enabling the children of La Chacra to print out their creations

    Day 56

    Ink and Paper for La Chacra

    The team had picked out computers for the computer lab portion of the space, but they didn’t have any way to print from these computers. We didn’t feel like the space would be complete without it, so we set up a printing station with a high quality printer and scanner, lots of paper and plenty of ink!

    Having a ball with a new soccer ball

    Day 55

    Play (soccer)Ball!

    Hello, hello! We’ve got just a few more days in El Salvador, and we want to make them special.

    The kids of La Chacra get behind the camera and shine

    Day 54

    Photo Op!

    Welcome back to another day in La Chacra, El Salvador! The neighborhood is known locally for suffering from gang violence, but despite this, we’ve found it to be vibrant and full of people who want to be known for more than just that. This was something we really love about working with the group in La Chacra; people show up every day to spend time together, mess around, and have become another family of sorts for each other. We wanted to help capture this, so we did a photo project similar to the one recently completed in Apopa here. Initially, the group was a little bit shyer than the youth in Apopa but quickly they warmed up and everyone wanted a turn both in front of and behind the camera. One of our favorite moments when they were fooling around with the camera and taking pictures was when they took […]

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