Children's Land Vision

From: Ross Wehner [mailto:ross@worldleadershipschool.com]
Sent: Wed 11/19/2008 9:36 AM
To: Clay, Carmen; 'Cindy Beams'; 'Fred Beams'
Cc: 'Aima Molinari'
Subject: Children's Land Vision


Carmen, Cindy and Fred

See note below from Aima and the revised vision of the Children's Land. I'll
be sending along a slideshow shortly that has photos of the children's land
that you can send to your Peru service learning students, both past and
present. You can see considerable progress is being made!

The rains have come so things are starting to turn green. Aima mentioned
some good and bad news -- workers took away the hill to make adobe bricks,
but left a lot of stones in its place. The good news though is the hill is
basically gone.

Fred and Cindy, I've translated Aima's text below.

Ross

VISION
Translation: This is the first draft, we still have to add a few things here
and there . . . but I would like you to send me any suggestion or question
you have. The little house in the middle is a store and an information
center, the house with the steps is an ampitheater, there is a house in the
tree (to the left). The little tables next to the wall are made of
eco-brickes and are for playing table games, talking, socializing, eating,
etc. On the side where the palm tree there are actually more trees, about
20. The half moon (not by the palm but on the left side) is the "corner of
peace" also made of ecobricks and beneath trees to have shade. The boxes
that can be seen on the right back side are part of the recycling center
that does not appear very clearly in this drawing, but basically it si where
we separate the trash and we store what can be re-used. In the corners there
are boxes for storage and also for composting. I think we need a bit more
greenery, although as we have spoken, it's probably that they give us a
rectangular piece of land that is near the entrance of the schools, so that
it be a children's garden and it would be divided into sections. We still
have to draw the "living fence" (editors note: this is a fence made of
living, normally prickly, plants). Another element that is not here, and
appears in some drawings, is the forms of the farms and little homes.

This drawing has come out of the drawings of the kids themselves and some
ideas taken from the school professors.

Este es el primer borrador, falta agregar unas cosillas aquí y allá...pero
me gustaría que envíen cualquier sugerencia o pregunta. La casita del medio
es tienda y centro de informacion, la casita con gradas es un anfiteatro,
la casita pegada a la pared es un lugar para hacer arte y manualidades, hay
una casita en el árbol, ( a la izquierda). Las mesitas pegadas a la pared
están hechas de ecoladrillos y son para juegos de mesa, conversar,
socializar, comer, etc. El lado donde está la palmera en realidad hay más
árboles, son como 20. La media luna (no la de la palmera, la del lado
izquierdo) es el rincon de la paz también hecho con ecoladrillos y debajo de
los árboles, para la sombra. Las cajas que se ven en el lado derecho
posterior es parte del centro de reciclaje que no aparece muy claro en el
dibujo, pero básicamente es donde se separa la basura, y se guarda lo que se
puede reutilizar. En las esquinas hay cajas para depósito y me parece
también que son composteras. A mi me parece que falta un poco más de area
verde, aunque como ya lo hemos hablado, es probable que nos den un terreno
rectangular mediano que hay a la entrada de la escuela, para que sea el
huerto de los niños y estaría dividido por secciones. Faltó dibujar el cerco
vivo. Otro elemento que no hay y que aparece en algunos dibujos es la forma
de las chacras o de las casitas.

Este dibujo ha salida principalmente del dibujo de los niños y algunas ideas
de los profesores de la escuela.