tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514118380973862762023-11-15T23:07:55.607-08:00South America'My photographic heart lies in documentary, showing things as they really are, not as someone has contrived them to be'Becky Welford Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00742999500004054399noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51411838097386276.post-49121625570857760982011-06-08T16:26:00.000-07:002012-01-22T08:16:43.993-08:00The end of Bolivia & PeruThats the end of Bolivia and Peru. I wonder where I will be next time, 2012 awaits me...Becky Welford Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00742999500004054399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51411838097386276.post-46148777743210768892011-06-07T08:31:00.000-07:002012-01-20T16:18:29.749-08:00Sun Island<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am in Oruro, in Bolivia for the last 2 weeks before I come home, I am staying with my brother who has been living and working in South America for the past year and a half. I am going to been volunteering in 3 projects over the next 2 weeks, helping children with homework and thinking up some creative ideas to have fun with them. One of the projects is going out on the streets in the day to visit working street children where we will play on the spot games with them talk to them and generally give them some love. None of the street children sleep on the streets in Oruro cause it is to cold at night so they pay 3bolivianos per night (25p) to sleep in a room somewhere, they can earn this by shinning 3-4 people shoes for example. Last night it was -9 brrrrrr, I just about had enough layers to keep me warm, I'm going to buy some gloves from a market today as right now my fingers are freeeeeezing..... Oh and Bolivians don't heat there houses as its to expensive, so sometimes its actually warmer outside than in. BUT the sun does still shine here, and it can still burn your skin. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today was a busy busy day, we left the hotel at 9am and didn't have time to stop for lunch all day. I think I could write alot about today but it would be so much. But what I will write is a story of a child we got told from a pastors wife, right at the end of the day. Her and her husband run little church for children from around their community. This lady begins with the story (real life story) of a young boy who comes and knocks on her door during the week after his mother has beaten him up, this boy is four years old, my heart literally broke, she explained his condition when he arrives at her door, his face bruised and bleeding, absolute torture for this child...four years old? Whatever the age this is just disgusting, to be honest I cannot truly express how I felt today when I heard this story. This child is mentally and physically abused, he is psychologically damaged, often in the day this lady sees him lying on the ground at the end of her road crying, his mother goes to work most days, his father is an alcoholic, locking him in the house all day or leaving him to roam around, but what is keeping him where he is? The pastors wife explained that this is one of many stories of the children that live in her community, they provide a hope and a safe enviroment for the children to learn and live in. This couple are fully aware of this situation and it is delicately being dealt with by professionals, its just a long hard process.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today we went to visit the reed island on Lake Titikaka, there are 36 Islands that people live on. To my surprise there were even sheep, cows and pigs living there to. We got off our boat at one of the islands where we had a demonstration on how they build there islands. The people who live on the island eat a part of some of the reeds daily, peeling it like a banana. Sitting beside us was a baby eating some of the reed, which reassured me to try some, it didn't really taste of anything but I liked it. One of the families took us into there home and let us try there traditional clothes on, which was funny, I got given bright orange to wear.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We got taken to another island in a boat made out of reeds, as we got rowed away two women sang to us, one song we didn't no which was in spanish, then for a laugh they sang 'row, row, row your boat....' Everyone we met on the islands were so friendly and very proud of where they lived.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lunch today was awesome, everything was cooked by heat, fire/sun. The chicken was cooked in two home made solarpanel ovens for 4 hours (the flavours were amazing) the potatoes were cooked in the ground; hot stones were heated up on a fire and then buried in the ground with the potatoes and covered in newspaper and soil, once cooked they were dug up. The salad was all grown in the green house. This meal was soooooo good.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have enjoyed every bit of my trip so far, but haven't had time to sit down and take it all in, which is so important. I am so pleased with what Toybox has been doing here to help, everyone is just doing a great job, there is so much enthusiasm and love here. The adults and children are always so pleased to see us, welcoming us and feeling like old friends. We will be leaving Oruro on Saturday but in about 2 weeks I will be coming back with my brother and working with him for two weeks, visiting some of the projects I have been to whilst I am here.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a good note my altitude sickness seems and is much better, I think the altitude tablets are helping and the gallons of Coca tea I have drank in the past fews days, the air is defiantly thinner here and I still feel short of breath but I should get used to it, at least today I haven't felt bad with it.</span>Becky Welford Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00742999500004054399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51411838097386276.post-39411252068763193792011-05-05T16:51:00.000-07:002012-01-20T16:11:22.083-08:00Question<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today has been the hardest so far, I cannot actually explain what I have seen, it was just out of this world, I can't even begin to tell myself that this is really life, it was just so wrong on so many levels. Let me expand abit, we entered a park (HUGE) which used to attract families and couples with beautiful landscapes but is now nothing near beauty. The dangerous street gangs have taken it over, The park is overgrown with cactus' and weeds and in the gaps are groups of children completely far from this planet. We walked down a bumpy path, into a area with about 15 children, I have never seen anything like this, the closer we got the stronger the scent of glue, the smell was awful, one you can't forget. The children were completly drugged up, all over the place. Now I didn't no before we went to this group that they are actually known to be the most dangerous street gang in Cochabamba, these children are involved in stealing, murder, abuse of all kinds, so what has driven them to this, their family background. We don't know all there stories, but these children are damaged, you can see it in their eyes. Towards the end of our visit we were hovering around their 'home' if you could call it a home, a place surrounded by rubbish and filth, I turned around to see a young boy cutting himself, this ripped my heart into shreds, it was actually his birthday today and in South America, families make a big deal over birthdays and celebrate there lives, but for street children it is never a fun day because they don't have anything to be thankful for. We took a cake with us for him and everyone sang happy birthday (in spanish) he was crying the whole way through, he would have woken up this morning thinking that he would have to get as high as possible to knumb the pain of know one caring that it was his birthday, but he saw that so many people did care and he was so grateful. The street team working with these children are doing an amazing job, usually when people from outside the come and visit, there can be trouble and a swift exit is needed, remember this gang is the most dangerous group, but today the children were welcoming and caring, which is unusual. They could see that we had come to see them because we care about them, this reflected onto them, they are out family as well. To walk away from this group was possible the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, and that is not an overstatement, one of the girls asked me if I could pack her in my suitcase, I would if I could. All day these children have stuck in my mind and I think they will for sometime, I cannot begin to explain the contrast between here and home, how can I, but what I can explain is that these children are being looked after by an amazing group of volunteers, the work they are putting into this group is amazing and there is huge vision for these children in the future, yes it is hard to walk away from, but the people working with them, know best and I thank God for them they are a blessing for those children.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a bit of banter today with one of the directors of Toybox about how Bolivians talk on their mobiles, they move the phone from their ear to their mouth when they talk, and it just amuses me. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ate cow's tongue and octopus today, it wasn't that bad either. Also lots of Matta de Coco today again, me and the altitude are not getting on at all, hopefully it will be better tomorrow as we are traveling by bus in the evening to Oruro, which is just over 3000metres, 1000meters higher that Cochabamba </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So today has been one of those days where everything has been like a dream, I know myself that what I have seen is really life because I experienced it with my own eyes, but to recall it just doesn't connect with me, I want to tell myself that these children aren't living like this, but the reality is that they are. I am so thankful for the charity and what they are doing, the hearts of these people is amazing and they are such humble people, I send all my blessings to them.</span></div>
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</div>Becky Welford Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00742999500004054399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51411838097386276.post-91334069600761864052011-05-02T21:32:00.000-07:002012-01-20T16:14:58.292-08:00Hope<div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Yesterday we flew from Peru via La Paz to Cochabamba in Bolivia; I will be here for the next 8 days. So in my earlier post I wrote that I was in La Paz airport, well soon after that when I went to the toilet and out of the oxygen café I was in, I passed out and was sick, 5 minutes before our flight was about to leave, this was because of the altitude. Any who typical South Americans we weren’t late getting on the plane and we were an hour leaving so I had time to recover.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">So today was the first time out in the city of Cochabamba. In the morning we visited a girls home, full of children who have come from very damaged homes, but the project has brought them sooo far, as soon as we got there two girls came running over to me and grabbed my hand, I continued for about 3 hours just picking them up and playing with them, thoroughly tired out, so much fun though (literally had a gym workout)! Hyperactive is how I would describe them, sooo much Energy! So great to see children who are off the streets and safe in a beautiful home and setting, they still have a long way to go.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Its a huge culture shock, almost straight away you get used to there being poor people that surround you, and then you realise this is so wrong, its an emotional rollar coaster. I have seen some great work the charity has been doing, children now filled with hope, still damaged but are on a journey forward, its there faith that does this. We saw a family yesterday where her husband has now left the home (shack) and back on the streets drinking, his wife literally broke down in front of us, it was soo sad, we prayed for her, and she was so thankful.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US">So I have some time to kill in La Paz because the airport just decided to cancel our transfer flight because its been a bank holiday, the airport is tiny and everything is really old and run down. Thank-God we managed to get a flight in 4 hours time phewwww....otherwise it would have ment a 6 hour bus journey to Cochabamba :S Somehow I have got Wifi, The cafe I am sitting in is an <b>O2 cafe </b>which has <b>oxygen</b> pumped into the room, La Paz airport is the highest airport in the world, with an <b>extreme al</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US"><b>ltitude</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US"><b> of 13325 ft (4061m)</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US"> breathing is quite hard, When you stand up you get a head rush, and walking just puts you out of breath it is sooooo bazar :S</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">It makes sence in the media side of things, that to touch peoples hearts you need new images, we become numb to familiar photographs, for people who cannot travel to these places, a photograph is one of the biggest sources that can be brought back with us, to show others what is going on here. It has reminded me how special yet also important it is for me to take photographs whilst I am there....</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><i>'I can do all this through him who gives me strength.'</i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Phillippians 4:13</span></span></span></div>Becky Welford Photographyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00742999500004054399noreply@blogger.com0