Ch’alla

Last Friday nearly all of the team at Proyecto Horizonte took part in the Bolivian tradition of Ch’allar. This involves making a small fire with herds, sweets, food, fake money, etc, and carrying the ashes round all of the rooms in order to protect them from all bad things. We started off in the school, we passed a cup of chicha round and went to all of the classrooms. Then we repeated the process in the kindergarten, the health clinic and the offices. The kids from the kindergarten all came together and did a dance round the playground, wearing carnival masks. It was really nice for almost the whole team to come together and there was a really positive atmosphere.