I traveled to the tent village in Loushui with an NGO called Ecologia. They were in the Sichuan area before the earthquake, and since then they have set up a youth program called the Rainbow Project. Each Sunday a bunch of volunteers come up entertain, distract and educated the children living in the camp who now have no school to attend.

The whole village met the bus with smiles, waves and clapping. We walked through a corridor of clapping and smiling people through the gate and into the park.

First the volunteers lunched.

Then for three hours they played with the kids. There were various craft tables, letter writing stations, face paining. Until the drizzle became rain, there were also sports outdoors, in small opening in the center of the camp

Thanks very much to BingBing, my wonderful translator, and to Peng Xin for his advice.