Yesterday as Julie was preparing for English class , we were discussing giving an assignment.. "If I was a flower, what flower would I be?" .. Today I was thinking the question should be ..if Kyrgyzstan was a vegetable.. what vegetable would I be?"
The answer would have to be an Onion... because like an onion, every storey has many layers.. and as you peal back the layers to understand more, it is harder to see because your eye's fill with tears.
Let me tell you more ...
Today we were at the bazaar to order school supplies for the orphanage.. they will be ready for tomorrow so I will have them for Friday when we hope to go out to the orphanage to pick up a young friend there . We will bring him in to the hospital to see about an eye operation. We got a very good price for the supplies... $250 for everything...Still not sure how we will pay for it.. I guess I will figure that out tomorrow ... .. So after shopping we went over to the home of the lady looking for the loan... and that's when the next layer of skin came off....
After looking at the plans for the addition, we meet her children again... That's when we understood her desperation.. this poor mother has been working so hard in an attempt to get her children home. The three kids have been in an orphanage because the house is not in good enough shape. She is desperate to have her kids home.. They have only been with her the last week because the kids are on their March break, but must return at the end of the week.
Suddenly it all makes sense why she is so desperate to get help... It just tears your heart out. 
this is the current store that will be the living room when the project is finished .. the ceiling is lath and mud, and continually the dirt falls into the store meaning that she must clean the whole store every day . 
This is the door into the living area in the back. 
inside the living area, Julie tried to get a photo, but we do not have a wide enough angle lens.. so she stood in one spot and looked around.. the floor area is about 3 feet by 1 foot... 
this is the kitchen area with a small TV I am sure that as time goes on , more of this storey will be revealed to us, but for now we will try to wrap our heads around what we have seen today. You know we see so many children that are in the orphanages because they are abandoned or because their parents just simply don't care, but it is soo hard for us when we find cases like this where for nothing more then poverty, children are separated from their parents...
I can not imagine the pain that this family is living with .. this is just such a hard world?
1 comment:
yep. . . tears.
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