So this morning we left at 7:30 to visit & work at Crossroads orphanage. It's a church and school that was pushed by the government to take in 37 orphans from Port. They sleep in one room with one toilet and one shower--girls and boys ages 4-12. After we had a tour of the entire school, and Noah was introduced in front of every class, the group left and some of the guys stayed back to work.
We stayed most of the day and built a wall separating the girls and boys sides and built 6 bunk beds attached to the wall to provide more floor space (the beds were all about 12" apart and head to toe.) We also built a door on a bathroom in the office space. Our visit and time there provides a stark contrast of how different COTP is from Crossroads. It was a good place, but COTP is just so much more beautiful in comparission--plus the staff to child ratio at COTP is amazing compaired to Crossroads where they had two staff on at a time (4 total for 37 kids!).
Back at COTP the ladies made a cake for one of the girls that turned 2 today and they had a big birthday party. Painting in the playroom continued as well--I think it's finished now.
A new girl was admitted and will be staying with the Vander Pol's tonight. (Been a while since we've had a baby that needs to feed every 3 hours, so we'll see how that goes....) Oh, and Kerry Breems, no we cannot simply "take her home with us" so no need to ask.
The group is pretty amazed that tomorrow is the last day already. Time has flown by. Group 3 leaves tomorrow morning early, so keep them in your prayers please. They will be traveling through Miami rather than Ft. Lauderdale.
It's after 10, and even though back home I stayed up much later, this is getting to be a bit late for me, so I'm off to bed--that is if the old farts (Jeff and Dawn) don't make too much noise playing dice with some of the long term folk.
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