Operation Orphanage

Photo is of: a manager telling us about the facilities. Not sure if you can make it out, on top of the walls are broken bottles to prevent people from climbing over.

My class and I have adopted an orphanage to help out. We first visited it, along with the fourth graders, to meet the kids, check out the facilities, and assess what ways we could help. The children lost their parents to HIV/AIDS and may or may not be carrier themselves. There are 40 kids ages 5-15 and can only stay 2 years before extended family must take them in. If there is no extended family then people take them in as "house help" but it is no better than slavery. Before you get your hopes up, no we are not adopting. The president's wife passed a law that no children can be adopted out of the country. My own personal opinion on that is a way to show that things here aren't as bad as they really are to the rest of the world.