Wednesday 22rd September 2010
Elise and I are up and ready for our kitchen duty day. Grace is the cook and she is excited to have us help. Basically all our morning consists of is soughting good beans from bad beans and there is massive buckets which takes us hours to sought. Then we help out with the lunch dishes and prepare the spinach for dinner that has been picked fresh from the garden. There are about 50 mouths to feed so you could imagine the size of the pot we are using. We prepare the beans to ensure we aren't eating any rocks or beans with wholes in them from insects. It's a long process but with an ipod handy can be quite medatative.
After lunch a few volunteers arrive back and tell us about a family they have visited today who have a 2 week yrd old baby that has been dumped by it's mother. They have no money and no milk to feed the baby and the impression they got is they don't really care if the child dies. The volunteers pay the farmer nearby to supply a weeks worth for milk for the baby so it can survive in hope the mother returns if not we will have to rescue the baby and bring her to the orphanage. We make plans to visit tomorrow and we travel to the nearest supermarket and buy formula to take there for the baby, just in case. We also get together a big bag of baby clothes we have to take to them.
We hope the mother returns so we are able to chat to her and for that poor little baby.......
Looks like we have another long, emotional but rewarding day ahead of us :-)
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