Day 5: Monday Mania

Monday was a pretty busy day for us...so busy I fell asleep before i could blog, so apologies! We started out the day taking a tour of Ventanilla, a city outside of Lima. It's about a 45 min drive there. It's a pretty modern city, but it's up in the hills where the V4P school is. We drove to a couple overlook spots for the girls to see the enormity of the amount of people in such a small area and their conditions. We stopped at a community cemetery which now has a fence & security cameras around it. Apparently,  the mafia have been known to come in and dig up the bodies for the organs. We then drove to another community and visited a daycare. They opened this day care in
Wawawasi to allow the moms the ability to work and to have a safe place to place their kids. They pay 1 Sol, or 33 cents for the day. Usually there are 15 kids under the age of 3, for the 3 teachers, but today when we went, there were only 10. As we knew there are 30+ more suitcases full of donations coming over the next few months, we packed up backpacks for the little babies & their families.  We also filled a suitcase for the teachers with school & personal items. What fun we had!! The joy over backpacks, balls & PlayDoh was enough to melt your heart and want to stay & play all day.
We picked up lunch and headed to the V4P school. Today we got out the sidewalk chalk and went to town. The kids started trickling in one by one and soon the whole court was decorated with all sorts of drawings, Tic Tac Toe, etc....They got out the Fusball table and that was good fun too. Some Moms showed up for Bible study while we played with the kids. After a dead battery in the van and a jump from the neighbors, we went for dinner and then soccer practice. The girls even did some warm ups with the 2nd Division team.  Overall a busy, but wonderful day!!!