After Breakfast Lizzy and Hannah took a group around Charity putting up posters and chatting to the community about the litter pick on Friday. The responses were generally positive although there were some people that said it was so bad they didn't think we would have an effect. Even if one person sees what we are doing it will have made a little difference. Sara, Nikki, Claire and Elizabeth ran sessions for the other group on designing a banner for the litter pick and then creating songs and mini dramas for the girls to perform in the afternoon as well making recycled drums (plastic cups and paper) as they wanted a bit of a fun day after the litter pick. In the afternoon we had a re-using craft session where we made crafts from used materials, these were made to be shown at the litter pick/fun day. The girls made skittles from plastic bottles, photo frames from cereal boxes and plastic cutlery, pompoms from plastic bags, pencil pots from plastic cups, jewelery from scrap paper and candle holders from plastic bottles. They seemed to have a good afternoon making things and being creative and it was good fun working with them.
 |
| Our banner |
When it was a little cooler we played some games outside, the girls really enjoyed this, they like learning new songs and games and they even taught us some which was great to see that their confidence has grown.
As we have been incredibly hot at night, the six of us attempted to sleep outside on a covered balcony. We rigged up our Mozzy nets and laid out the mattresses, it was quite fun lying outside watching the stars and although still hot was a little cooler.
 |
| GOLD team litter picking |
On the Friday we had our litter pick. We wanted to make an early start as the sun can get quite strong very quickly. Sarah and Sara were interviewed during the littler pick by the local TV station to ask about Guiding, what we were doing and why? The girls worked very hard and we managed to clear a good section of the main street, definitely noticeable.
After lunch we headed back into town for the girls to show off the performances and crafts at the boardwalk. There had a good laugh and it was great that people actually stopped and watched. The performances were great and afterwards we gave the banner to the local council who will display it which is fab.
This evening we had some some Guyanese food for dinner and we tried Roti and Bakes, quite yummy :)
The girls are heading back this evening as they are catching an early ferry, we are staying another night to finish the cleaning and will catch a slightly later speedboat and meet them the other side of the river to travel back to Georgetown. We had lots of singing as we waved them off.
Traveling back to Georgetown.
After finishing the cleaning we travelled to Supernaan ready to catch the speedboat. This was much quicker and quite exciting as we bounced along the river. We only got wet occasionally and all managed to hold on to our hats.
No comments:
Post a Comment