Day 6

Today was a beautiful day!! We went back to the same community that we had given out shoes.

These children do not have enough to go to school so an American family is connecting them with sponsors and preparing them for school. Tom (different than the shoes) walked us around showing us the beautiful land. The children would run up to us and hold our hands. The funniest part was they really wanted to wear our backpacks. The bags are as big as them it was too cute.

Soon it was craft time, Baby brought my now well travel suitcase, as I liked to call it the SUITCASE of FUN and we made our work area right in the grass and they got to coloring their own little book packs right away. How funny backpacks were all the rage!!



In the afternoon we went to the Fistoula hospital. Honestly, this was the hardest part of the whole trip for me. When I think of mothers I think of a woman in her late twenties or thirties but these girls were younger than me and some younger than my students. These woman had already been pregnant, lost a child, shunned by their community, forced to travel by foot for several days to come to this hospital to receive surgery. My biggest stress in life was which prom dress to wear. Each woman receives a beautiful blanket when she enters the hospital. The women clung to the blankets like they were gold. But a new lease on life is better than gold. As the woman grow stronger they make amazing baskets and platters for injera and other meals. The money make will help them to start their new life. When we left they were sold out! I was very overwhelmed when we left.