A woman names Kathy Headlee Minor started an orphanage in Lusaka about 10 years ago. Sister Salmon had visited it many times before coming on her mission, so she was very familiar with the organization. It's called Mothers Without Borders. They were going out to visit and take some Christmas treats and invited us to go with them. It was an amazing experience. There are about 30 children who live there, but only 17 were there that day as it was school break and the rest had gone to visit other family members. On the wall of the dining hall was this poster. The words are in English followed by another language. The organization takes children from about 2 to 17 and many of the workers are members of the church. We have had many of the children there be baptized. It's awesome to see how they work and play together.
These are the ones who were there that day.
They enjoyed the Rice Krispie Treats and banana bread we took them. The one with the crazy hair is Silvia. She is an employee there.
We sang Christmas carols and danced the Hockey Pockey.
Some of the beautiful faces that greeted us that day.
Boys will be boys no matter where they live--US or Zambia!
They have a beautiful vegetable garden where they grow much of what they eat.
This is the kitchen where they cook the food for all the children and staff. This worker is prepareing pumpkin leaves in the large pan and had rice and a meat dish in the other pans. They cook on charcoal and it's so hot here anyway, that I think cooking like that would be very hard, hot and tiring!
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