Honduras: Proyecto Familiar

Hey, I know this is a lot of posts for me, but I have an extra break this week! Today is a national holiday so nobody had work today except the tios (this happens a lot, because school is always canceled, but the tios still have to work). But when we have to work on a national holiday we usually get compensated with an extra break so my shift only had to work the morning and now I have off from today at 2pm until tomorrow at noon. But I wanted to write a post about proyecto familiar, which I had for the first time last night. Proyecto Familiar is a way for siblings on the ranch who don't live together to get to see each other. Most kids on the ranch have siblings, but most of them don't live together since they all live in homes based on their gender and age. Proyecto Familiar is when a group of siblings on the ranch has dinner at Casa Personal (where the volunteers live) with a volunteer. Each month there is a schedule of Proyecto Familiar and each volunteer usually does around two a month. Usually you are assigned at least one kid from your Hogar (home) and then all of their siblings. Last night I had my first Proyecto with two kids from Casa Suyapa, Beto and Chocho. I know it defeats the purpost of Proyecto if they live together already, but of course they still get to have Proyecto because all of the kids love it so much. Because there are so many proyectos sometimes there will be two in one night, so last night I had proyecto and so did Kristen, another volunteer. We decided to just cook together to make it easier. We made sooooo much food! I made the main course, pizza, but while I was cooking that she made panqueques, as an appetizer. Then came the pizza, it was soooo good and cheesy. After the pizza we had brownies, with frosting. Super indulgent. But it was so fun and the kids loved it.