Saturday, February 18, 2012

Conaspeh and an Orphanage

Today began early I was up at five thirty and began today one the run. We headed to CONASPEH and and learned their general congress is going to be at the CONASPEH headquarters. We saw a group planning clean up of the grounds and then we headed up the coast to the orphanage. They people from CONASPEH had only been to the orphanage once and that was a scheduled visit and they did not know we were coming today. They wanted to see if the place was well cared for on this visit as it looked on their regular visit. What we discovered was good news. The orphanage was was clean and well run by a very caring woman and her staff of one other helper. The kids ranged in age frown 5 - 16 with most of them falling in the 9-14 range. The children were clean, smiling and looked like very happy well fed kids. They all had beds and and backpacks for school hanging over their beds. The children spoke well and obviously well cared for.m
Today we purchased $300 dollars worth of food which consisted of 150 pounds of rice 20 pounds of Macaroni, 60 lbs of corn meal, two cases of corn oil, three cases of tomato sauce and 1/2 a case of Mackerel and 6 tubs of margarine. We also bought 40 lbs of laundry detergent out of the $300. We left half of the food at the orphanage gave them $300 to buy more food when they need it.
I felt good about the purchase and good about the orphanage. It was a long trip up the coast traffic was heavy and we went through several small villages on the way.
By the time we got back it was dinner time and we are now relaxing back at the guest house.
I was planning on posting a video but I do not have the correct cable to do that because I did not bring the right one to transfer it to my computer.

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