Update from December 2018 to February 2019

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The blog has not been updated since December 2018, we apologize for this lack of assiduity, but it does not mean that our beautiful project Sky Katitawa was off during all this time, it is all the contrary. A lot of motivated and amazing volunteers have volunteered with us like Kevin, Pedro and Loic that made amazing videos to explain more in details the project and a typical day of a volunteer in Salasaka. Links of the videos below



December was the month of a really important event, La Fiesta del Capitan to remember two historical events, the conquest of the Spanish in America and the involvement of the community of Salasaka in the Revolution led by Eloy Alfaro. But you will know more about this party when you visit the museum of the people of Salasaka where the volunteers sometimes go to help to promote the culture of the community of Salasaka.
It goes without saying that December is the month of Christmas, a hard time for the volunteers as they are far from their families. But don´t worry, to cheer them up, some events take place in Salasaka. This year, the volunteers were invited by the president of the community of Patuloma (the community we live and work with) to have a party just a few days before Christmas. A lot of funny games involved with gifts to win. Tomato game, egg game, musical chairs, piñata, traditional musics and dances…


For Christmas´eve, the volunteers are not alone as they have a dinner with Micaela´s family. Once again, we had a great time and we even received and offered gifts from and to our Secret Santa.



Right after Christmas, we enjoyed one week of vacations chilling and visiting Ecuador before celebrating 2019. We must say that spending New Year in Ecuador is an unusual and amazing experience because of the tradition of the Año Viejo and Viudas.

For Año Viejo the Ecuadorians make puppets of famous personalities or characters from cartoons with any material they can find like old clothes, cardboard, and paper filled with shaving, hay or sawdust… In order to get away bad luck or energies of the year that has just ended, they burn the puppet during New Year’s Eve.

The Viudas (widows in English) is a funny tradition that only exists in Ecuador, men have to dress as a woman and stop the cars in order to collect money. And everything is allowed, dances, seduction and more... Some volunteers took part in this event and managed to collect quite a lot of dollars for the Project Sky Katitawa !!!






In February there is la Fiesta del Caporal, symbol of the indigenous resistance during the Spanish conquest. Once again you will receive more information about this event in the museum of Salasaka.
February is also the month of carnivals in South America, the one in Ambato is really famous because the floats are made with flowers and fruits.


         


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