The children vary in age, but are all very excited when we visit. In addition to playing with them, the children are helped with homework, read to, and we play a number of learning, counting, and reading games.
One of the games consists of hiding bottle caps we've collected over the week. When all the bottle caps have been collected the children come to one of us, and count the caps they collected. As we arrived one child approached us excitedly to show the bottle caps she had saved during the week.
The children do not have much, and make do with what they can find. One child found entertainment with a stick and some mud, this I can relate to. Others played with wheels nailed to sticks. One toy was 4 bottle caps, attached with nails like wheels, to a cut up juice containter to make a vehicle attached to a rope. The alphabet poster on the wall has words, and pictures attached to each letter, but shoes is spelled shose.
There is a store affiliated with the orphanage that sells a number of African made products, as well as eggs that are produced at the orphanage by their chicken coop.
I intend on purchasing souvenirs for friends and family here to support the orphanage, for those of you interested in helping out the orphanage and receiving something cool feel free to message me on facebook (Gregory Forsberg) or my email at ( gforsberg@gmail.com)
Photos from this day start here:
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