Turned out that last night we had 2 groups that stayed at New Life Children’s Home. One from Florida and one from Atlanta Georgia. I walked around the compound early this morning with a lady from the Georgia Group, showing her around the property and trying to get her interest in support of New Life.
Kids were back in school today so not as much chaos. I was able to put together two more bunk beds, and work with Rene and Frenzy on last beam fabrication for fish farm and we started to lay out and fabricate the truss. I have to admit that both Rene and Frenzy have pleasantly surprised me with their willingness to learn, how quickly they are picking up this fabrication and that they actually apply a thought process when working on fabrication. As this week progress, I let them work on their own more and more, and both of them stepped up to the challenge. What a great feeling when you are a teacher (just awesome)! This feeling is my reward for the daily heat, humidity, and dust!
In the early evening a group of us, including Miriam, Dr John and Pastor Max went to visit an orphanage that is located in the middle of “nowhere”. Lady that is running the orphanage received this plot of land from someone, put a very primitive fence up and called it home. A moon like surface is surrounding the area. A 1 inch of fine dirt covers the whole area, it is virtually impossible to keep anything or anybody clean. Pastor max is a young man called to serve the Lord in the near (relative term) by tent city. He has an overflowing plate of his own already, he sleeps on the floor of the make shift church, but yet he has no problem to oversee this orphanage as well. It was agreed that a pad will be made for storage tanks so they would have place to store water, tanks will be purchased and water delivery will be arranged. It was a heart breaking visit. A departure from (city) conditions, as bad as they might be, this is a 10-fold worse. The good news from this visit was (if there is one) that the kids were in a very good spirit and they looked healthy, unlike how they looked during Patty, Renee and Joan’s visit. Dr John was very encouraged about the health aspect of this visit.
Tired and hungry and emotionally drained we returned to New Life Children’s Home. Cold shower and some dinner were somewhat refreshing.
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