What we could be doing?

YWAM in Recife 

Soccer Show Project: Currently 200 children and teenagers between 9 to 18 years old attend with social and educational activities provided through the soccer school.The children need to be up-to-date in their studies at school to be allowed to attend. Besides developing soccer skills, the participants and their families learn about the dangers of drugs, violence, about making good choices of friends and the influences of negative peer pressure.

Show de Bola

Other sports activities include karate and floorball (it seems to be a cross between ice hockey and hockey)

floorball

Karate Kick

Love Project: This project works with families, women, girls and teens to help them discover their potential and personal value. Families are reached by home visits, counseling, workshops, and crafts. This allows them to be capable and productive, and in turn creates a good family structure. Empowering them to be self-supporting and free from addictions is also one of the goals.

I know that my wife is intending to participate in this project as she is taking lots of loom bands with her to share. In fact, my 10 year old niece has been teaching her!

Heritage School: There is also a school on the site where we will be staying which is under construction. At present, it educates children between the ages of 2-6 offering education, food, recreation and personal care. I'm not yet sure how much the school has been developed but I'll update you when I know.

Street team: Many of the volunteers spend time on the streets developing friendships with street children. Through this, they can identify which children are willing to leave the streets and return home to their families. Often members of the street team will play games with the children. We are taking Uno with us as this is a popular game in Brazil. I hope the children understand my attempts at saying numbers and colours in Brazilian Portuguese!

Hope House (at the base); This is a restoration house for former street boys between the ages of 10-14.. After leaving the streets, the boys live full time in the home with qualified staff. The boys go through various phases of the program until they are ready for a full reintegration into society. At Hope House, the boys are part of a program which has areas which includes social, physical, family, spiritual and education.

Hope House

DAILY SCHEDULE

My wife and I are going to be busy! We will be working on the projects for 6 days a week and breakfast is at 6:15am!

It is going to be hard work and perhaps a little scary at times, but we are excited to be able to go there and looking forward to sharing more of it with you.