This video makes me happy.
Here in the US, we find extra-curricular activities for our kids. What is my child good at? Oh, honey, you’re not good at this. Well, let’s try that.
We may try softball, baseball, karate…whatever we have to do so our children feel that they have something to identify themselves with. In the third world, this concept is completely unfamiliar, especially when many of the children in the third world are not even in school. Life is about survival.
So I found this video on this guy’s blog who works with children in a garbage dump community in San Jose, Costa Rica. He has found ways for these kids to have fun and just be kids. This is a video of some of them doing some breakdancing. (It reminds me of the goosebumps I get whenever my boys in Peru do their “choreographies”) Enjoy!
And of course, I felt the need to post this video of our boys in Peru doing some of their dances. It’s a long one, but if you watch the first few minutes, you’ll get to see some of their impromptu dancing.
