Sunday, September 16, 2012

PILMES Sports Camp May 15-18, 2012

PCV Trevor Mooney and I worked together on a sports camp. It taught American Football and soccer and lasted for 4 whole days. Here is the pamphlet I made with a lot of help from Mam Arlene, a fellow teacher at PILMES.
 Two major goals of the camp were that girls as well as boys be involved and that no child had to pay any fee for anything. Both those goals were met. 
For most of these children, this was the first time they'd ever handled a football.  The pop bottle is marking a boundary, since the rain erased the yard-lines. Note the cow in the background. We had goats on our field, too. 
Trevor in the gray, a youth coach on the left, and look at those girls play!

This is after the closing ceremony of the camp. The governor paid for the t shirts with our logo on them.  They are holding the certificates, signed by Education officials from the local school all the way to the Head of the Division. This has an impact on their grades in school.  
I had a follow-up meeting with Governor Vilma Santos-Recto, in which I gave her a thank-you and  a copy of the picture above, of the athletes in their t-shirts. I also discussed my ongoing project of developing a type of library. We had a nice talk and she agreed to donate materials. 

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