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| The VEPA and Camp Glow team! |
Camp Glow is an annual event organised by the Peace Corps. About 30 Tongan female students are chosen from the local high schools to participate in a week of fun learning. They are taught about nutrition, sex education, careers choices as well as participating in arts and craft activities and games.
VEPA spent two hours with the girls making a world map out of bottle caps and wallets out of milk and juice tetra paks. The girls had so much fun and were excited with their end products.
It was lovely spending time with such a happy enthusiastic group of young ladies. They were all very interested in the different countries, how many people they had in them, what they were like etc.
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| World Map made out of bottle caps. |
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| Some of the girls painted their wallets |
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| Susana and Mele helping the girls make the world map |
Aimee and I carefully banged in at least 30 poppers for the wallets which left me with two rather sore fingers! All the wallets turned out fantastic with some of the girls painting theirs bright colours.
Thank you so much Kate, Aimee, Vicky, Susana and Mele for helping out!
'Ofa atu
Elana
'Ofa atu
Elana
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| Aimee Foster (Friend of VEPA) making wallets out of tetra pak's |
This is awesome!!! I'm so glad to learn that Sex Education is taught to the female youth of Tonga. There is a cultural taboo against talking about sex to youth, and this leads to unplanned pregnancies and a host of other issues. I love that you're teaching them green values :) Being green is hip and cool. :)
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