Centenary College
May - June / 2008
This trip had a big component of first experiences for many of the students, and had two main goals: allow the students to explore deeper in themselves through exposing them to a new environment (glacier hike, white water rafting, horseback riding); and meeting local people, knowing how they live and what they need. In the trip we meet a group of people doing a "minga" (comunal working day), we meet the people from El Quinual to give the children fruits and school materials, and finally to plant trees at Urbina, helping to improove the botanical garden from Rodrigo Donoso (we planted 50 trees!). We meet later on the trip the people from Santa Monica , a rain forest comunity near Tena. We brought also school materials for the children there.
Minga at Piemonte Alto, to transport water tubes to a higher spot in the area
Students giving the school children fruit, notebooks, pencils and erasers
Planting Polylepis trees at Urbina
