This is what we started with (well I ended up buying more)
After being in Ecuador for 6 months now, I thought this year for Christmas I would give back. The girlfriend had told me about this daycare house here in Quito that had a lot of little kids that were 5 and under. Most of these kids are pretty poor and don’t have a lot. So I decided we’d do something for them for Christmas to help make it special. We went to a local market (which helps support locals) and bought about $150 worth of candy, popcorn, soda, Santa hats, balloons and even rented a cotton candy machine for the day.
We packaged the candy up in a traditional Ecuadorian way. You will see bags of candy like this everywhere down here, as people buy them as cheap gifts to give kids. My girlfriend said when she was younger, she and her sister would get like 10 bags of candy every year for Christmas. She said most though were filled with animal crackers for the most part with a bunch of stuff on the outside, like candy bars to make it look better then what it was. So this is where I got the idea from for making bagged candy but there wouldn’t be filler crackers in our bags! We filled them with nothing but teeth-rotting chocolates, gums, suckers exc.
So Friday we went to the day care and threw them a fiesta! The kids were so cute and they got tanked up on sugar rushes. I had so much fun shooting pictures of them while they ran circles, as I think they got a kick out of the balloons more then anything. Felt good to give something back and it made my year complete. Who knows where I’ll be for Christmas next but if I’m in a foreign country I look forward to doing something like this again.
Pictures of the kids to come…
... and this is what we had once we bagged them.
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