Grafton Refugee Camp

After we went to visit the Children's hospital, we made our way to the Grafton Refugee Camp. This was a camp designed for people to live after the war happened in 2001. We arrived with lots of suckers and candy to pass out to the children. I not thinking packed little snickers bars (lol) and in 90-100 degress weather they were melted but the kids didn't care. They were still flocking around to get the Chocolate and I showed them how to open the wrapper and slide the candy into there mouth. It was hilarious! After, the candy rage one of the Team members Heather got to meet her sponsor children's dad and family. It was a very neat experience and hit home to me because the next day I got to do the very same thing.



After the refugee camp, we went to St. George's which is another Children's Orphanage were some of the children previously came from the first orphanage TRS came into contact with. It was an awesome day, we did a feeding program for the kids and I got to meet Lucy. She was a little girl that really grabbed my heart from the Team in Sept. trip pics. She was precious and thriving. They performed a little ceremony for us. Here are some pictures from the visit.

The next day was our Beach day!!! The team was very excited to take all 79 kids and the caregivers to the Beach for a day of fun and relaxation after a day like the day before. We got there after about an 1 1/2 bumpy car ride. It was beautiful. We had little huts and tables that we could sit at. We couldn't have asked for a better day. It started out raining a little, which was perfect to cool things off and the kids loved playing in the rain, then the rest of the day stayed overcast and perfect weather. The team had a lunch there on a veranda hutch with there version of lobster and rice. I think it was actually HUGE crawdads but it was still tasty. It was really surreal to be sitting on the beach in Africa eating "Lobster" because the day before was such a hard day our team really needed this.