{"id":2392,"date":"2011-07-07T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T10:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2011-07-07T10:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T10:43:38","slug":"fun-dance-games-and-stories-at-the-orphanage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=2392","title":{"rendered":"Fun, dance, games and stories at the orphanage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2395\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Art and stories with the children\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/dscf2377-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Art and stories with the children\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/dscf2377-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/dscf2377.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Another morning at the Yebo camp and we were excited for the day ahead. We would be working with the children with things that we had learned from our visit to see the chimpanzees, both at UWEC and Ngamba. Today we would be visiting the children at the orphanage so they could get to know us better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So today we went to the orphanage and we were greeted\u00a0 again by the children\u2019s smiling faces. We started the day with a chasing circle whereby we introduced ourselves by dance and funky moves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We told the children a story about a chimp called Sarah, whose mother died when she was young. Sarah the chimpanzee was passed around to different people in her life and treated badly before she was found and rescued by UWEC. They gave her the love and care that she needed so she is now able to live a happier life. The aim of telling this story was so that the children could relate it to their own similar experiences and to also provide them with educational information about rescued chimpanzees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2396\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"Art and stories with the children\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/dscf2280-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Art and stories with the children\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/dscf2280-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/dscf2280.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We then further divided the children into different groups, focusing on expressing the chimpanzee\u2019s story through art, music and dance. We encouraged the children to write their own songs, and source their own instruments, choreograph their own dance moves and draw their own art work to tell the chimps story.We all worked together and it was great fun and really interesting and thought provoking to see what the children were coming up with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Before we left the children created a circle and invited three members of the Yebo team, Melissa, Janet and Alice into their circle and gave them a present of African names; Mushabi (meaning peace), Mukusi (meaning blessing) and Gyrabo (meaning the gift).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">We ended the day with dancing, laughing, and hugs before we got back on the bus to come home to UWEC. We are looking forward to taking the children to Ngamba island soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2401\" title=\"Dancing together\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/img_2646-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Dancing together\" width=\"537\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day at the orphanage spent creating different activities with the children, including dance, drama, stories, music and art. We looked at the feelings of chimpanzees along with the thoughts of the children<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}