Shiny bits of tile in blues, yellows and green now dazzle the wall between the police station and the beach in Samara. The sea-theme mural was created by CREAR and school students from Samara and El Torito.

A group of about 20 volunteers from Cherry Hills Christian School, a high school in Colorado, USA, collaborated to finish the mural June 29 and 30.

The mural was started back in January during the summer camps hosted by CREAR, a nonprofit program that provides free educational programs for Samara and El Torito school students.

The concrete wall was cleaned and prepared for the camp in January and the children made the designs, shaping algae, turtles and starfish out of pieces of tile like fitting together a puzzle. Now the rest of the mural has been filled in with a blue tiles to create an ocean backdrop.

"It looks amazing," commented CREAR coordinator Andrea Keith.

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