Score International

Everyone was excited for today as we knew we would be going back to the orphanage again.  We started the day by going to another Sugarcane village.  This village was unique in that they actually had people working there.  There were men rounding up cattle into a stall while riding a horse and swinging a lasso(never thought we’d see actual cowboys over here), there were men driving trucks to haul stuff and a factory of some sort (probably coal) with lots of activity going on around it.  Some of it was pretty distracting for the games and such with the kids, but at least we knew the people did sometimes work.  We were able to do a few different things with this village as SCORE allowed us to take some items that had been donated to use as carnival prizes. The kids really loved that and crowds always gathered around the prize area.  We were also able to give away some diapers and baby clothes, and they were much needed.  There was a 17 yr. old girl there with a 2 month old baby and she let everyone hold the baby.  Many of the mothers in the villages look to be very young teenagers, so we were hoping that our sin box skit might get through to some of the people.

Then in the afternoon we went back to the orphanage and the kids were ready and waiting for us.  They couldn’t wait to do the “Get Loose” dance with the HG students again and spent hours perfecting it.  We also did carnival games with them and gave away prizes, let them draw with chalk on the sidewalks, played many games with them, did crafts and just loved on all of them.  One of the main things they asked of us this time was to paint a part of their wall inside with a mural of some sort. Someone had previously done some great paintings on the walls but this particular part was blank.  So our artistic students and counselors planned out what they would paint, bought the paint and then spent hours completing it while everyone else played. They did a great job and the mural looked great.  Hope you are able to see the picture of it.