After 3 weeks of hard work with Jacky and Fran, we finally held our first workshop about the reef, the mangrove and the sea grass ecosystems mid march at the Julio Ruelas school. After telling the Starfish story, we handled 3 activities: The reef, the mangrove and the sea grass, teaching them through games what are these ecosystems, why they are so important and connected and what threats they face. One of the highlight of the workshop being the creation by Fran of the comic character ‘Cameron el Camaron’ living in the mangrove!!….Its always fun and rewarding to run these activities in the schools, can be pretty intense too though when 40 kids are getting really excited to end up their morning! But hey I think its well worth loosing my voice once in a while!!!…Nothing better anyway to see these kids proud faces when we give them their Passport as Official Coral Reef protectors once completed the workshop!…..Im looking forward to discover what drawings they will come up with on the theme’ What would you do to protect one of these 3 ecosystems’….
