After a simple phone call I was picked up from the bus terminal and taken to the orphanage where I had the privilege of spending a day with the children there.
The food at the orphanage is one of the few things that has a fixed source of income.
Forty-seven children, most without any parents and others with parents missing for some time, live at the orphanage. Ranging from around four years old up to the oldest at seventeen, each child I talked with loved his home and everything about it.
The visit was very short, at only one day, but gave me an insight into the lives of these amazing children with hearts of gold. It was a real privilege to have been able to visit them.
Although all of the children have good shoes for school, their house shoes are old and very worn.
The children have special routines that they go through in preparation to going to bed.
The older children, as part of a program to help prepare them for when they leave, wash their clothes by hand every day.
The younger children have their own room and have already gone to bed by the time I arrive.
In the orphanage, the children learn the values of being ordered and neat.
During the Easter weekend, the children enjoyed a game of football on the pitch inside the orphanage grounds.
One of the children playing football prefered to play without shoes.
The large flat on the top floor of the orphanage where guests and teams are housed.
Children studying in the classroom on their day off.
Young Robert enjoys drawing pictures and is good at them too.
One of the many rooms in the large orphanage that is currently used for a storage room until it is needed for other things.
