Saturday, February 20, 2010

Welcome to Rainbow House!

There are two new residents of Rainbow House, and I could not be more excited.

I often feel like I should explain this orphanage because it's a little complicated. It has children who live there and recieve care higher than that of the government orphanages in the same area. The government orphanages are overloaded with children and understaffed, this creates huge abuse and mistreatment problems.

Rainbow House takes in some government orphanage kids every morning Mon-Fri from 8:30-2:30. They participate in the Rainbow Day Care program with the other children who live at the orphanage. The kids who are residents at Rainbow, often come from the government orphanages.

So, after all that, two children who were previously just coming to the day care, are now going to live at Rainbow House! In fact, one of them is getting adopted!

 
 
This is Bee! She's 8 years old, very chatty and very cute. She isn't able to walk on her own at the moment. She struggles walking with a walker, but with proper physio, could do very well! She's determined to stand.
 
 
This is Lilly! She is 9 years old and is in the process of being adopted by two volunteers, James and Rachel. She is deaf and has cerebral palsy. None of this stops her though, from anything! She's always running around, jumping up and down, and climbing all over everyone and everything. She falls constantly, but it doesn't phase her.

The lives of these two children are going to change so much. I can not wait to see the improvements in their lives as they carry on at Rainbow House.

Welcome Lilly and Bee!

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