Supplies for Royal Seed Orphanage

"Hi Hunny-

I tried for more than one hour to upload at least one more picture to send you, but the computer shut down and lost it and now don't have enough time to do it over again :( I'll try tomorrow.

It was supposed to have a picture of the kids at Royal Seed celebrating (sitting on) these huge bags/sacks of rice, beans, salt, etc... that we bought with the donations. I also got lots of diapers and wipes for the babies, tomato paste to make sauce to eat with rice, chicken meat, lots of onions and soap to wash their clothes. The huge bags have more than 60 pounds for sure, the one with salt I would say maybe 100lb. It is amazing how much food they need to feed 130 kids. They are always very thankful and happy with the help.

That is what I did today: I went to the market with 2 helpers, Cintia and Shaibul, and we got everything that was on the list that I asked Naomi- the director- to write. We took a long time to buy everything and took it back to the orphanage. The bags are humongous and heavy, but we were happy doing it. It surprised me that they eat one of those huge bags of rice in one day. We got 2 today, and they are not very cheap, but I'll see if I can get more.

I also got some medicine for the kids, including a solution to clean their wounds, band-aids, cotton, etc, and I put the gloves you bought for me and treated their wounds, even using the Neosporine you bought for me at Target. They made a line of more then 10 kids as soon as I said I would do it. Many of them scared me because the wounds were really serious, like burns and huge, deep cuts still bleeding. And I realized that even though I need to do it, I'm much better as a teacher... haha

But it was good, its a challenge that I'm happy to have."