by Starfish | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
This is our favorite girl at the Aids Orphanage. We have been visiting her for three years now. She always has a big smile for us. The children at this orphanage are well cared for. They all are HIV positive. This is not a government ran orphanage, it is mostly...
by Starfish | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Often, people say “it must be very depressing to go and see so much pain and need”. It is, but it is also very rewarding to be able to do something about it, even if it’s for a day. Sometimes you have to let your hair down and have fun to release the...
by Starfish | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
by Starfish | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
This is how the people in the squatters camps cook. They just use whatever they can find and make it work. They live like refugees in their own country, a country torn apart by civil wars of the past. There are many children living in these camps. We don’t have...
by Starfish | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Wednesday the team went back to San Martin (pronounced San Marteen), and visited their friends at the Special Needs home again. They also went to a squatters village. This is where people live that have no where else to go. They move onto land that they don’t...
by Starfish | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today the team spent most of their time in San Martin. They visited a home for individuals with special needs of all ages. The facility houses just over 100 residents and is horribly under-staffed. They were able to deliver much needed adult diapers and other...
