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We would like to invite the Kids to get to know and to appreciate this beauty
and above all: to protect it !
Because we're all aware of the problems caused by global warming
and this is an opportunity to start protecting our forests, protecting nature.
We protect the forest,
we protect the animals,
especially the birds.
You'll find the spectacled bear , deer,
armadillos, agoutis, pacas.
The flora consists of thousand different types of trees
uncountable species of butterflies and insects
that are an important part of the forest.
My name is Edgar
Teresa
Alicia
Byron
Josseline
Abelardo
Robinson
Henry
Generally I think it's important to interact with the kids.
I don't think that it makes any difference,
that the kids are ecuadorian.
Being in Ecuador on the other hand is definitly a big influence.
We're able to use the opportunities given, i.e. the finca.
It's an exotic place not only for me but also for the kids
They live in the capital Quito and don't have any experience with nature and animals
Here they find pigs, hummingbirds
and a lot of rare and peculiar insects.
That is what makes it one of a kind.
I would like to show them that photography involves more
than pressing a button to take a picture.
We explore various aspects of photography.
The children learn about exposure-time,
what a lense is, how one can use the zoom for example
to purposfully create in-focus and out-focus areas on a photograph.
They also learn about picture composition, about forgeground and background.
We then try to take photographs together, using this newly acquired information.
Later I gave each of the five children a camera to allow them to do experiments with making their very own pictures
Ð both here on the Finca and at their own homes.
It would be good to see them applying this knowledge later
to make and select pictures possibly even with a camera belonging to the organisation Ð to see them develop.
One of the children from this year`s group could possibly participate
in instructing a workshop next year and thus become a leader for the other street children.
I show them certain possibilities to manipulate pictures.
We are doing a painting workshop.
We started with the colour circle
and techniques witch allow one to work abstractly with form, texture and colour.
It is an amazing experience for me and I am very happy to be part of it.
I learn a lot from the children.
I have the impression that they learn part of my knowledge and experience,
and I learn much about their culture, their actions and their development.
That is very impressive.
Since I heard about the project in Germany it haunted me
until I accepted to take part.
What motivated me is the special nature of the Project
that it does not happen within an institutional framework like a university or such like.
We developed it and we`ve implementing it now,
in order to create something with the children.
My idea was to create something new from recycled waste material, in particular cardboard.
Each child thought their own idea Ð that is what we had hoped.
Initially it was a bit difficult to reach the children as they were easily distracted.
That was also due to these surroundings, which captured their attention,
and it was not easy to gain their attention.
But I think that we achieved good results despite the short amount of time available to us.
It was only 6 weekends
that we have good results and especillay that the children developed their own initiative over time.
I particularly see the fact that they worked independently and thought for themselves
- while we were not present.
It is completely different to what I normally do.
Especially as an art student in university where everything is normally set and dictated.
Everything is more spontaneous while working with children,
one has to continuously improvise and you realise that you also learn a lot from them.
That is what I enjoy most Ð to share this process with the children,
who are very creative and not bond by form.
Despite their young age, these children are forced to work on the streets,
along with all the dangers that this entails present
In the morning they often leave home without breakfast
to work on the streets juggling, to sell sweets,
to do what they can to survive another day.
We know that many of them frequently do not come home.
They stay in the streets and occupy themeselves there.
They sell sweets, lollipops, whatever they can, in buses and on the streets.
Others polish shoes, sell newspapers, work as builders
or perform countless other small jobs which they can manage somehow at their young age.
The idea of the bambœProjekt is excellent.
It primarily helps the children to develop their own interests.
By doing so they learn to love nature,
to move within nature, to protect it and to appreciate its beauty.
That is something which is most valuable.
www.bambuProjekt.org