One of the things we're trying to teach the kids at the shelter is to 'continue the cycle' and give back, or give away. They've started to donate to one of the very poor colosios - communities- on the outer edges of La Paz, many of their no longer needed or extra items.

This day was giving back in a different way. We helped them participate in a beach clean up. This year it was the mangrove area of Conchalito, at the end of Colosio, next to the bright orange Crit building - a live in facility for severely handicapped children.


Cricket and I rounded them up early Sunday morning and found the location. I took a few photos at the start, but since we had the threat of rain, the camera stayed in the car.

Everyone gets a large reinforced bag that contains your t -shirt and pair of gloves.

Once we had our 'area' we headed out to the beach side of the mangroves collecting plastico, metalico, y vidrio. Plastic, metal and glass. Unfortunately, we passed by an evening 'parking' location adjacent to the beach. I'm guessing we could have used a shovel, at least a broom and filled one of the bags with beer caps and aluminium pull tabs.


Once our bags were full or our area was clean, we were sent to another location, a very muddy location. We looked up to check out the sky conditions just as the lightning strike went down, quickly followed by the thunder..... a run for the car! We were done for the day.

Our kids are in the middle just to the right of the kayak!
Good job to all of us!