Just a Few Thoughts

Guess I'm seeing my age - so little energy left at night to tell you all I think and see...

BE LIKE BRIT  - an amazing place - and along with what the others have said - I was impressed with their caring for the children's roots...
A volunteer made a scrap book for each child. Photos of aunts and uncles and cousins, information about their family and community of origin, and about them... like we might have a baby book...
Each month the children go for a "home" visit back to their community to see their extended family and run off and play with their friends.  They are accompanied  on this visit by the social worker and a brother or sister from their orphanage family.
Amazing place - amazing people. Thank you so much Len and Cherylann Gengel!

A TYPICAL DAY - up at 6:30 / a hearty breakfast at 7 - always eggs in some style, bread, fresh fruit and often slices of ham/ make sandwiches and prepare to leave / gather for a prayer circle and song / depart about 8:15 for our worksite for the day /  work until done :-) stopping between noon and 1 for our sandwich lunch - for most of our team PB&J, for the translators - ham and cheese, Monday did not end until after 6 and our supper was at 7 - way too much about 180 patients seen - tired and stressed, Tuesday and Wednesday we managed to see well over 100 and still leave before 4 - very civilized... After Monday we made up numbers (1 - 100) to be given out to those waiting (knowing that we "held" another 20 or so for urgent needs... the numbers still climbed up - but it was much more manageable.  Another thing we added in was a triage for children....  Each church has a school.  The children of the school were checked, temps taken, worm meds given and those who had medical needs were referred to the Providers.  In this way we "saw" perhaps another 100 children while keeping the stress down on the providers - Wonderful idea Julie Cedrone!  [This triage will necessitate upping our Children's vitamin count significantly - but what an added blessing that will be.] Thursday we saw over 120 adults and children and probably 75 school children and left around 5 from the gorgeous mountain top of Blanket for our 1 hour ride home. After work we return "home" shower, rest a little and have supper.
After supper we visit the orphanage about 2 blocks down - or we gather to share thoughts of the day and an evening prayer... The group disbands around 9pm.
Amazing group - amazing days!