Estiu Jove

Despite the Covid alarm, I am finally working to the main part of my volunteering project: the service of summer activities for children offered by the municipality of Sant Lluís. Normally it consists of 6 weeks, this year is only 5. We started on July the 6th and will end on August the 7th.

It's been very hard to organize the service and schedule the activities in line with security measures. And it's weird to play with children wearing (them and us) all the time surgical masks, putting constantly hand sanitizer gel and keeping the safety distance. It is difficult to communicate with the voice perpetually muffled by the masks, the smiles hidden by the masks and the looks by the sunglasses. But we are having a good time anyway. I'm playing a lot.

The kids are divided for age in three groups of 20 people. Each group is accompanied by 4 educators.

The activities take place from Monday to Friday, from 9.00 to 14.00. On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday we spend the morning in Biniparratx, an equipped area with swimming pool, volley basket and football camps, tables and green areas. On Wednesday we stay in the Sant Lluís sports area (gym, football camp and natural circuit). Every Friday we go to a different beach of Sant Lluís municipality to do kayak and beach games. Everyday we meet in the sport center parking lot, we move to the activity spot, we play games, we have a snack, swim, do handcrafts, and we share our impressions on the activities done during the day.

[Pictures from Molí de Baix Facebook page]