rice rice rice!!!!!

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Just a quick blog, as we dont have access to internet yet, so using Pradeeps computer. So we have been in the orgphanage for 3 days now. Here are a few insights to life here:

Gorgeous children who are so needing affection and love. There are 38 of them. A lot of the have been sick and are hungry. They eat rice pretty much for breakfast lunch and dinner, as that is all the orphanage can afford. The go through 25kg of rice every 3 days and that cost $12. Their diet has no calcium, they dont drink milk because it is too expensive and therefore they are so small with thin bones
😞 They also cant afford many vegetables and meat. The kids only drink 1 cup of water a day!

They sleep on a marble floor in a big old house that is rented off some rich person. They dont have bedding. They all sleep together on the floor from 10pm until 5am. They get up and do chores for 2 hours and then go to school.

Yesterday we bought some "Tang" and made up a big pot full and they had 1-2 cups each. I dont think they had ever had anything like it and they loved it. We also gave them some bananas and biscuits, which they gulped down. They are always hungry! It only costs about $1 to buy the Tang and a packet of biscuits, so this is something i want to be able to support, so that when they get home from school they have some afternoon tea.

Anyway, i must go and play witht he kids..they have a day off school today as there are strikes.

Jill x

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