By Lauren Wilkinson After taking a short bus ride from the VG house to La Boca, we were greeted by Johan, one of the men who runs ‘Los Pibes’ and one of Voluntario Global Coordinators. Los Pibes is a community centre in La Boca run by the community where there are numerous facilities including a soup kitchen, library, computer clusters, classrooms for after school, space for boxing training and a radio station. We arrived at about 10am and after a quick tour of Los Pibes,  Johan introduced me and Marie to the three ladies we were going to help cook. There were already two volunteers there who we had met previously and who volunteer on a regular basis at los Pibes. We started by washing and preparing the vegetables for a beef and vegetable stew! Once all of the vegetables were ready we let it cook and had chance to talk to the ladies we were working with. They are all very friendly and welcoming and are interested in why we are there and where we are from. In some other volunteer programs talking Spanish is made easier as there is usually someone who can speak English to help fill the gaps. However the ladies knew no English so there was a slight communication barrier; despite this we all seemed to get our points across! Once the food was ready we began serving it to those from the community, we served around 20-30 people within about 30 minutes. They were each given a huge portion of rice with the stew we had prepared and some rolls of bread and to wash it down some orange juice. Everyone who came for food was friendly and wanted to make conversation. Once we had served everyone, we sat down with them and had our lunch (the same as them). A lot of the community made conversation with us, which was a great opportunity for us to practice our Spanish again! La Boca is an area of Argentina which outside of its colourfully painted houses, has quite a bad reputation. Los Pibes allows people in the community a place to go for education, food, warmth and a friendly face. It Is refreshing to see that within a community with many problems people can still come together to look after each other and los Pibes and the people who volunteer there offer exactly that.