Just Another Day

Another exciting day in the camp. My closest friends from the Sandbox are moving soon and they have all sorts of things they can't take with them including a lot of little girl clothes. Today I took a few things out to the blind kids that I work with. They were so so so excited to have new clothes!!

This is the little 2 year old girl who is blind. She was so happy to be putting on that cute little dress. It didn't matter that she couldn't see how cute it was because here mama told her it was new and that she was beautiful in it and that was all that mattered. It's not the best picture but I think if you click on the picture it will enlarge and you can see her beautiful smile.
The mom called all the kids inside the room with us. Then she went through each thing one by one and gave one thing to each kid no matter if it was her own kid or if it was just a kid from the street who knew the white people were at her house and came to look at us. One little girl specifically chose her shirt, put it on and then was like 'I have to go show my mom about this beautiful shirt!' and she ran off as fast as she could! They all put the clothes on right away and then ran around giggling and showing off their new things for each other. They asked me to take a picture of all of them together in their new clothes, then their moms made them take off the new stuff so they didn't get them dirty...I guess they'll save them for special occasions.

This little girl was too big for any of the clothes we had but that didn't matter. She was so excited for all the other kids who got new things.

Here I am carrying a baby around...seems like I do that all the time these days!

This is the toy box and the toys that the 6 kids share. I don't know if you can see everything so I'll list them for you: an empty juice box, and empty tea bag box, a plastic bottle lid, glass bottle coke lids, and an empty cough drop box. BUT my two favorite things they play with...2 old corroded batteries and the 3 empty, mangled, sharp-edged tomato paste cans. Sometimes I wonder how these kids can just make it to the next day.