Marti Expeditions Murals

Marti Expeditions is a group from Trinidad that goes around to different countries and does community service. One of the other Peace Corps Volunteers found out that Marti Expeditions was going to be doing some murals at the special ED schools in Grenada and passed along their information. I was to exited to leave my mark on Grenada finally in a visual way. So I got together with the group of teens for dinner so that I could meet everyone and we could start working on are design for the murals. We came up with two really cool ideas one was a market seen that were going to turn into Ispy with local objects for example A for Apple. The second idea was a map of the hole Caribbean and each country was going to have soothing that represented it such as the national colors, fruits, animals.

When it was time to paint at the first special ed school in Victoria the principle explained to us that the kids at that school are not that advanced and they would prefer something more usable for the teachers lessons. This made perfect sense and I felt bad because I work at a special ed school and my kids would probably not have benefited from are first ideas but I though that the kids at the Victoria special ed school were more advanced. Any ways on short notice we changed the wall into sections of usable things for the teachers to use. One of the sections was days of the week with a symbols for the first letter so they could make the connection, for example Wednesday wave! We also had a numbers section with the word, and a symbol for the amount so the number 5 FIVE ***** so they could have something to reference to. One of the other sections was a clock and symbols all around it shapes, and such, the last wall was a rain forest with a monkey hanging from bamboo and hidden animals! It was a grate day and the kids got to work with some of the boys from the Father Moligun home. The same boys that I did camp Tufton with. They also got to see some of Grenada's carnival people who passed so that was fun.

I was not involved with everything that Marti expedition did but they did amazing things, they cleaned up one of the beaches, did some sight seeing and also worked at some of the schools I think. I was at camp GLOW.

The last thing that I did with Marti expeditions was paint another mural inside of the Child Protective services, we went with a rainforest that covered the hole wall and animals were hidden threw out the hole thing. It made the hole room so much brighter and friendlier as well. I had a grate time with all of the kids and the staff I am so happy that I got to be apart of Marti Expeditions trip to Grenada and I am so happy that I could provide support, paint brushes, stencils and friendship.