Orphanage in Congo

Bahati, greeted us at the orphanage with her hair in 15 four inch braids sticking straight out of her head. She welcomed us and showed us around. Bahati, was an orphan with no education, but one day she found a baby nursing on his dead mother. She took in that baby and 68 others since. They live in 3 rooms of an elementary school. The rooms are dark; one room has a bed, another only a blanket, but it is home for these children. There is one toilet and no running water. ALARM, our organization bought them gutters to collect the rain off the roof and a holding tank to gather the water.

I started to write a list of their needs, blankets, clothes, toilets, food ... then in my journal, I wrote, "needs: EVERYTHING!"