Charlotte Arnold of TV’s Degrassi talks about travelling to Ecuador this year to help build a community kitchen with Free the Children

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Degrassi’s parternship with Free the Children last year when we went to Kenya for our first trip and this year we decided to keep it up with Ecuador. And when we went there we were just basically building a community kitchen and like a clean area for them to make food and feed the kids and we worked on a clean water project as well. And while we were there we painted a big huge mural on one of the walls of the kitchen for a little personal touch.

It was the most incredible experience. I mean, I felt non-stop from the second we got there to the second we got home, it was like once in a lifetime experiences that I’ll have to keep pinching myself.

So only were we there seeing how beautiful the country is, getting to find out about their culture, eat guinea pig – yum – but we were also getting a chance to do something that I feel really proud of. And, I got to know my cast so much better while I was there too, so that was a lot of fun.

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