Wednesday

I have some great photos of some of the children we visited today....but I am unable to upload them right now. Hopefully I will be able to later.

Today we visited another orphanage in Tegucigalpa. It is a private run orphanage that has a lot of needs. Anna told us that they just keep taking in kids and she wonders if that is the best thing. I don´t think they have many outside visitors because when we first arrived they were much more timid than the kids at Casitas Kennedy. They have many kids sick with dengue fever and wanted some time to spend cleaning the inside of the building, so we spent the few hours we were there outside on the patio playing with the children. The children there were all under the age of 8. Anna said that most probably have families but that they are too poor to take care of them so they abandon them. The nuns that run the orphanage said there was a need for medicine so we were able to help by buying them medicine for the kids.

After lunch we headed back to Casitas Kennedy. We wanted to do something special for the teenage girls so we watched a movie and gave them pizza, popcorn and pop. A group of us spent time with them, a group painted their house while they were in the movie and another group spent time playing outside with the other kids. I got asked several times by one girl if we were coming back tomorrow. She got a big smile when I said ¨si¨, but it got us thinking about how hard it´s going to be when we are asked that question on Friday.

Make sure to check out a great post by Janell on her blog:
What You Can´t Buy at Walmart