Giving a piece of our hearts

Here are several pictures of our trip to the village to visit the children. It was a fantastic day and we are already planning what other items we can bring on our next trip. For any others who are reading this and are going south, the children need shoes, socks, school supplies and they also love getting toys, sunglasses and candy!!!

Enjoy the photos...what precious children!

We passed out all the stuff to everyone on the bus. What a blast we all had giving it out to the kids! We'd never met these people before and I think they thought we were a little crazy at first but they were feeling the love by the end of the trip!

Parents with the kids running after the jeep. The driver stopped so we could talk to the kids and hand out gifts to them.

Another group of children along the way. The bus driver (in the orange shirt) and one of the tour guides (in the brown shirt) even joined in. They thought it was great fun to hand out all the gifts to the children.

The taller girl in this photo (with the light blue shirt) is a Down Syndrome child and she loved the sunglasses. Her smile lit up her whole face when we put the glasses on her. We passed out candy, tooth brushes, mirrors, combs, coloring books and markers to these kids as well.

Below is a house of one of the little children in the above photo. Basically one room without windows or a door. It had the holes for them but nothing in them.

This is a group of boys who we met at the very end of our trip. By this time we were pretty much out of everything. We had a few combs left and some suckers. Note all the combs in the boy's hair.