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THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Sunday Februnrv 26, 1951

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Work. ..
By SVEA BLOMQUIST was already enrolled in the group,
WHEN YOU TALK about spend-I od.
ing a summer in a "work What it cost me was the price
camp," most people look at you of an airplane ticket and $60.00
wh . for room and board, which am-
with a kid of puzzled expression mounted to about $1.00 a day.
-on their faces. Sometimes they
just laugh and say, "Oh camps are WE LANDED at the ultra-mod-
for children," and let it go at that. ern airport in San Juan very
But to anyone who has been a early on a Sunday morning in late
member of a work camp group, June.
whether for a weekend, or two We were to work in the town
weeks, or two months, a work of Mayaguez on the western coast
camp means many more things- of the island and we then got into
and none of them vague at all. cars to finish our journey. There
To one it might mean school were about 13 of us Americans. We
rooms freshly painted in Philadel- were joined by several Puerto
phia for under-privileged children; Rican young people who lived and
to another, the sound of excited worked with us for all or portions
boys when they are given a new of our stay.
baseball lot to play on. We arrived in Mayaguez about
basebl lt tons pla on ud 4 p.m. in the afternoon, and moved
To me it means a new building into our "home." Our "home" wasl
and the smiling faces of a people the Marina Neighborhood House1
whose language I do not under- in a poor section of the town.
stand, Our first week was spent ini
LAST SPRING I heard of a work painting a dispensary next door
camp that was being sponsor- to Marina, and in getting to knowi
ed by a board of the Presbyter- each other and the children fromt
ian Church. I inquired about it the ncighborhood who stood and
and was told that the Presbyter- watched us.
ian Board of Missions was going 'HE NEXT week our real job
to send a group of young Ameri- began. Our work camp was to
cans to a town in Puerto Rico. build a day nursery behind the
Their job would be to help the neighborhood house for the pre-
people of the town to improveIschool clhildren of the community,
their comamunity. Under t h e wahosear nents work during the
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THE AREA IN WHICH THE PUERTO RICAN GROUP WORKED
It was then that we were intro- we began painting it. It felt good community center, or organizing
duced rather abruptly tocement just to stand and look at it. Not recreational programs.
blocks and sacks of cement and
lime, and the art of laying blocks. another Mason Hall, no. but IN ADDITION to the task that
We worked every weekday morn- yellow building that we had built the work camp has set out to
ing, and several afternoons a week. with our own hands. do, there is the educational side.
Two of our other afternoons dur- All work camps are for the most Members of the work camp get to
ing the week were spent in two part church sponsored. The jobs know and understand each other,
seminars. may be of a physical nature, such ,while they are developing an
as repair and building; or they awareness of the people and com-
BY THE SIXTH week our build- may be of a .more concentrated munity, or the country in which
mug was nearly completed, and social type, such as working in a they are at work.
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THE DAY NURSERY THAT THE WORK CAMP BUILT

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