Day three, this is the first day we are going to be working with kids. My group (Group 3) is stationed at Fundacion Padre Pio. Padre Pio is a church where kids attend school. The kids weren’t there today, but we did make them some gifts out of the palm tree bushes. We also got a tour of the church and of the classrooms where the children have class. At first we waited on the painter, but once we heard that he wasn’t coming either we just helped clean up the church. We meet the father of the church and he told us a little about some of the kids that were there.

He told us about one little girl who’s mother should up outside the church crying when she was young, because her mother was forcing her to prostitute to make money for the family. The little girl’s grandmother was forcing her mother to prostitute at the age of 10 and she had the little girl at 14, and is about to have her fourth child at the age of 18.

We hung around with the kids for a little while then the Father showed us his apartment and he sat around and talked with him for a little while his apartment was nice and we all learned a lot about some of the kids that were there. After sitting around for a few hours we decided to go play outside with the few kids that were there. Someone from our group brought chalk, so some of us played with the chalk and the rest of us kicked around the soccer ball with a few of the kids. As we leave we take our final pictures and say our good buys and head back to the hotel when we notice a huge market place filled with people. We head over there and we meet a lot of people none of which speak English, but we got to see how things in a flea markets of Ecuador.