Time to catch you up on the last 2 days....
Yesterday began with us visiting Home of Hope, which is a home for severely disabled children. For most of us this was very confronting. Edith, the manager has a disabled child herself, and felt that God called her to help other children as well. They have 26 children living at the home full time, and they visit many more in their homes helping the parents to learn how to cope with their disabled children, and trying to develop micro enterprises and training to help them earn money. Their goal is to encourage parents to actually 'keep' their children and not leave them at a home. We began by giving them 4 large bags of gifts and clothes donated by Casey CRC, which was hugely celebrated. Many of the children had their new clothes fitted right there and then! Huge excitement!! Then we were able to put the children into all sorts of wheelchairs and take them out for a walk.. That was enjoyed by both the kids and the team. Again, it was a confronting and impacting time, but we were glad we'd been able to be a part of it.
The afternoon was spent at Jinja Christian school, doing sport with the children there and having a tour of the school. After that we enjoyed an afternoon tea provided by Anne and Ron.
For supper we went to Robert and Rachael's home and enjoyed a great meal supplied by them and head from Robert of some of the needs and challenges for Village of Hope. Again, a really nice night!!
Today was our last day of work at Village of Hope. Some of us were helping to clean the building site, and some of us helped Ivan in planting seedling trees around the village. Each tree was assigned to one of the children to help looking after it.
This evening, we had our movie night at the village. Hallmark cards donated a projector and screen, so we were all able to sit in the community hall and see Lion King 2. So great seeing all the children watching the big screen!!!
We're in our final days here and doing lots of wrapping up things.....
Keep us in your prayer as we wrap up and prepare to travel to Kenya.
Lots of pics today.. check 'em out!!
Yesterday began with us visiting Home of Hope, which is a home for severely disabled children. For most of us this was very confronting. Edith, the manager has a disabled child herself, and felt that God called her to help other children as well. They have 26 children living at the home full time, and they visit many more in their homes helping the parents to learn how to cope with their disabled children, and trying to develop micro enterprises and training to help them earn money. Their goal is to encourage parents to actually 'keep' their children and not leave them at a home. We began by giving them 4 large bags of gifts and clothes donated by Casey CRC, which was hugely celebrated. Many of the children had their new clothes fitted right there and then! Huge excitement!! Then we were able to put the children into all sorts of wheelchairs and take them out for a walk.. That was enjoyed by both the kids and the team. Again, it was a confronting and impacting time, but we were glad we'd been able to be a part of it.
The afternoon was spent at Jinja Christian school, doing sport with the children there and having a tour of the school. After that we enjoyed an afternoon tea provided by Anne and Ron.
For supper we went to Robert and Rachael's home and enjoyed a great meal supplied by them and head from Robert of some of the needs and challenges for Village of Hope. Again, a really nice night!!
Today was our last day of work at Village of Hope. Some of us were helping to clean the building site, and some of us helped Ivan in planting seedling trees around the village. Each tree was assigned to one of the children to help looking after it.
This evening, we had our movie night at the village. Hallmark cards donated a projector and screen, so we were all able to sit in the community hall and see Lion King 2. So great seeing all the children watching the big screen!!!
We're in our final days here and doing lots of wrapping up things.....
Keep us in your prayer as we wrap up and prepare to travel to Kenya.
Lots of pics today.. check 'em out!!
1 comment:
Great to see your interaction with those lovely children of the Home of Hope, their joy on receiving the gifts was heart warming. Love all the photos - THANKS for blessing us with these updates each day. May you be blessed in the remaining days of your trip.
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