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Arin Gilbert

Sunday, August 27, 2006

The Living Jungle Gym

There is a Dutch organization in Xela, something like ¨Xela Smiles¨. The program is located in a town about 20 minutes from the city Center. The focus, give kids an area where they can go after school, so they can act and be treated like kids. Many of the parents work long hours, and in turn, have nowhere to place their children. Ultimately, some of the children are left without adult supervision, and absolutely no guidance after school.

Every month, the organization throws a huge birthday bash for children who`s birthdays are of that month. This month -not sure about other months- they were absent guys to help out. So I and a friend named Ryan acted as play toys. Needless to say, the children where extremely pleased to have a guy presence, and wouldn´t let go of me. Really makes you appreciate simpler things and how just the interaction an involvement of the human touch, creates so much happiness within others; especially children. I`m going to try and help them again sometime this week.

The following are a set of picture of the event- some I wanted and others, the children asked me to take. Seeing your image displayed on paper, or in this case the screen of a camera, is quite magical for many who have never seen their image before... that is, except for looking in the mirror.











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