The Orphanage

One of my colleagues who has won the nick-name of the Garden Gnome has championed involvement in supporting an orphanage in Juba that can easily break your heart until you get closer to the kids. The scene is quite stark. Some of the kids are naked, several are sick, some injured, and games are played with bottle caps, rocks, etc. The coloring books are exciting enough to get at least 40 of them out to the tables to draw, trace, color, and even make paper airplanes and masks.