Rebuilding the orphanage
It has started now. Our project on rebuilding the orphanage! We bought all the material yesterday and went with the builders to the orphanage. So yesterday they started to fix the cement on the floor and change the roof so it will be waterproof. It looks really different already just by that little things to be fixed.
We've been up there several times just to check how it's going, cause if you leave the builders too long, they will slow down the work and never finish it... So we are there all the time now to make sure that they are working properly!
Tomorrow are we going to the hospital with Queen again to see if she is better.
Write more tomorrow. Miss you all a lot!
// Mathilda
Donations for rebuilding the orphanage
I would like to remind you all that we are still in need of money donations. There is so many things I would like to do but I don't have enough money. We have got a few very generous donations which I really appreciate! You are soooooooooooooooooo kind! We are right now in a process of rebuilding the orphanage, to give the kids proper roofs, floors, beds, walls, good isolation and so on. We want the children to feel safe and comfortable, because it's there "home". And this opportunity is thanks to all you people who have donated money during our journey!!
Is someone of you readers would like to help this children and be aware of the fact that the money goes to something good, our account number is BG konto: 693-7742, write your name as the message, and our "organisation is called "ett klipp for livet" as you probebly already know". All the things we'll by for this money will be reported here on our blog. Pictures will be uploaded as soon as the internet will cooperate with me! Please think about the kids situation and help them out!
Clean water 2L - 5kr
worm medecine for 16 kids - 40kr
cough medecine - 25 kr
10 pencils - 4kr
a doctors consultation - 15 - 20 kr
building a well - ca 400 kr
to rent a fairly good HOUSE for 16 kids a year - ca 5000 kr A YEAR!!!
These are just a few of the things you could welp us with. Clothes and sleepingbags costs from about 10 kr each! It's so sick. The renovation that we are trying to do before we'll go home costs nearly 4000kr and its inclucded material as well. I don't like to beg, but these kids are worth so much better! Please help them!
Xx
// Therese
Is someone of you readers would like to help this children and be aware of the fact that the money goes to something good, our account number is BG konto: 693-7742, write your name as the message, and our "organisation is called "ett klipp for livet" as you probebly already know". All the things we'll by for this money will be reported here on our blog. Pictures will be uploaded as soon as the internet will cooperate with me! Please think about the kids situation and help them out!
Clean water 2L - 5kr
worm medecine for 16 kids - 40kr
cough medecine - 25 kr
10 pencils - 4kr
a doctors consultation - 15 - 20 kr
building a well - ca 400 kr
to rent a fairly good HOUSE for 16 kids a year - ca 5000 kr A YEAR!!!
These are just a few of the things you could welp us with. Clothes and sleepingbags costs from about 10 kr each! It's so sick. The renovation that we are trying to do before we'll go home costs nearly 4000kr and its inclucded material as well. I don't like to beg, but these kids are worth so much better! Please help them!
Xx
// Therese
The orphanage
Jambo! I'm going to upload some pictures of the orphanage as soon as I possible can, but I'm always so buzy that I forget to bring my camera every time I go to the internet cafe. Maby tomorrow! But anyway, I'm gonna write a bit about the orphanage now.
It take us nearly an hour to go by foot there and it's up a hill, but we get a ride with our hostfamily. At the orphanage there are 13 kids living there and three more which mothers are working there.
The "house" if you could call it that, is not in a good shape. The enterence door is just like a metal gate with a little "hasp" on the inside. Below the gate it's possible to crawl inside and above it you could easily use a small ladder to climb over. And there we go, we are now inside the orpanage. The enterence hallway is also the dining room and begins with a soil stomped floor and after a few three and a half meters it ends with a cheaper kind of cement floor.
The two bedrooms doors are in the dining area and are both about 10 - 20 square meters. It's a big draft through the rooms, since the isolation is very bad. In the girls bedroom some parts of the roof is missing, which also makes a draft. But in the boys bedroom there is no proper roof, just a metalish thing with a big gap next to the walls, where it rains in!!! The floor into the two bedrooms are made of cement, which makes the room really cold. And the windows aren't sealed enough to keep the cold out. I know it's afrika, but it's high above the city and we are in the rainperiod right now as well, so it's really cold for them, especially during the nights. The walls are intact and some of them are made of some cardboardish things. It's so much to tell u all about the orphanage but it takes too much time to write it down here.
You can't even imagine the bad shape of this orphanage, I don't even want to call it that! I've been trying really hard to upload some pictures today but the internet is too slow! I'll try again before this weekend.
Write to you soon!
Xxx // Therese
It take us nearly an hour to go by foot there and it's up a hill, but we get a ride with our hostfamily. At the orphanage there are 13 kids living there and three more which mothers are working there.
The "house" if you could call it that, is not in a good shape. The enterence door is just like a metal gate with a little "hasp" on the inside. Below the gate it's possible to crawl inside and above it you could easily use a small ladder to climb over. And there we go, we are now inside the orpanage. The enterence hallway is also the dining room and begins with a soil stomped floor and after a few three and a half meters it ends with a cheaper kind of cement floor.
The two bedrooms doors are in the dining area and are both about 10 - 20 square meters. It's a big draft through the rooms, since the isolation is very bad. In the girls bedroom some parts of the roof is missing, which also makes a draft. But in the boys bedroom there is no proper roof, just a metalish thing with a big gap next to the walls, where it rains in!!! The floor into the two bedrooms are made of cement, which makes the room really cold. And the windows aren't sealed enough to keep the cold out. I know it's afrika, but it's high above the city and we are in the rainperiod right now as well, so it's really cold for them, especially during the nights. The walls are intact and some of them are made of some cardboardish things. It's so much to tell u all about the orphanage but it takes too much time to write it down here.
You can't even imagine the bad shape of this orphanage, I don't even want to call it that! I've been trying really hard to upload some pictures today but the internet is too slow! I'll try again before this weekend.
Write to you soon!
Xxx // Therese
At the same time
Now it's my turn to write something here i guess..
Dont complain about my writing, cause Im typing very fast so the computer time wont run out!
This trip to Tanzania has been very hard for me. It has also been the best time of my life! I've grown so much during this time here and I wont ever be the same person I were when I first came. To see all the children, all homeless people, all poverty and everything else here has made me a different person. Hopefully a better person!
I've been sick this past week, so I've been at home at our hostfamily everyday and praying to feel better soon.
Okey, I dont feel for writing anymore, i have to fix some stuff.
I just wanted to say that everything is ok, and that I'm thinking of all of you back home.
Take care,
/ Mathilda
Queen
Mambo! Sitting on the internet cafe after a rather quiet day.
Yesterday I went with one of the girls from the orphanage to the hospital in town to take some blood samples and an X-ray of the chest. Her name is Queen, and she has a really bad cold and an even worse cough as well. We thought it might be tbc but the thing is that she is too skinny (4 years old and weighs 12 kilos) and she has no muscels to help coughing up the flem. So since she has been ill for over theree weeks the body gets weaker and weaker.
And the people who are working at the orphanage knows that she has been really sick for over three weeks, but they havent lifted a finger. They told me when I first suggested to take her to the hospital, that God would heal her. That's just madness!!! It's good that they have they belief but this is just insanity! They're depending on God too much, because they're killing the kids! INSANITY!
Since there is so cold at the orphanage during the night my hostfamily and I decided that she is going to live with us and sleep in my bed till she gets well. So today I have been home taking care of her. The medicine she got yesterday is really strong and makes her throw up all the flem in her lungs that has been there for a while, so we need to feed her a lot since the food she is eating comes with the flem. I just hope she gets well soon, it's heart breaking to see her like that! And she is sooooooo tiny. Pictures are comming soon! Tonight I didn't sleep much since she was coughing soooooo much and Mathilda and Pontus as well. So I was wide awake all night. Lovely. But if that is what it takes for her to be well I gladely do it!
Take care! Xxx
// Therese
Yesterday I went with one of the girls from the orphanage to the hospital in town to take some blood samples and an X-ray of the chest. Her name is Queen, and she has a really bad cold and an even worse cough as well. We thought it might be tbc but the thing is that she is too skinny (4 years old and weighs 12 kilos) and she has no muscels to help coughing up the flem. So since she has been ill for over theree weeks the body gets weaker and weaker.
And the people who are working at the orphanage knows that she has been really sick for over three weeks, but they havent lifted a finger. They told me when I first suggested to take her to the hospital, that God would heal her. That's just madness!!! It's good that they have they belief but this is just insanity! They're depending on God too much, because they're killing the kids! INSANITY!
Since there is so cold at the orphanage during the night my hostfamily and I decided that she is going to live with us and sleep in my bed till she gets well. So today I have been home taking care of her. The medicine she got yesterday is really strong and makes her throw up all the flem in her lungs that has been there for a while, so we need to feed her a lot since the food she is eating comes with the flem. I just hope she gets well soon, it's heart breaking to see her like that! And she is sooooooo tiny. Pictures are comming soon! Tonight I didn't sleep much since she was coughing soooooo much and Mathilda and Pontus as well. So I was wide awake all night. Lovely. But if that is what it takes for her to be well I gladely do it!
Take care! Xxx
// Therese
The school
Jambo! Just got back from town and it's time to write a few sentenses again! The orphanage we're at is called Rehoboth and there are 12 orphans living there. In Tanzania you're not just an orphan if you don't have any parents, but also when you're not "planned" and abandoned,m so some of them have parents but not attendant.
The orphanage has also got a school for the kids at the orphanage, but also for the poor kids living in the same area which families can't afford their education. It's really good for them, except for the fact that the english teachers really suck in english! And they have a really anoying habit of saying i after almost every word. For example red, they say redi, which is soooo wrong because it's a totally different word. But even though I try to teach them, the teacher still say redi, so it's futile!
Another thing that bugs me is that the teachers threatens them with the stick (or as she says: sticki). It's soooo wrong because she just scares them of even trying to learn, in fear to say the wrong word. And the kids in our baby class is just around 2-6 years old, and they are having all their classes in english. We teach them maths, english writing, reading and science. They are about 30 kids in our class and 10 in the "smarter" class and they are really smart as well, especially because of their age! But I think the idea of having kids in different ages in the same class is really bad! Almost all of them should be in kindergarden, BIG failure if you want my oppinion!
I can tell that the teacher really loves the kids although she beat them with the stick sometimes, but that's just the way they do it here. It's like a vicious circle. Sad but true! This is one of the million things that I want to change here before I go home. We are trying to teach her the "shame chair" so if they don't behave well we put them on a chair, were they are only allowed to look into the corner untill they behave nicely. I think the teacher tries to change her habbits but it's hard and a long process.
It's almost dark here so I have to go home before the dark falls. It's really dangerous for an Amzungo to be out alone this late. Take care! Bye! Xxx
// Therese
The orphanage has also got a school for the kids at the orphanage, but also for the poor kids living in the same area which families can't afford their education. It's really good for them, except for the fact that the english teachers really suck in english! And they have a really anoying habit of saying i after almost every word. For example red, they say redi, which is soooo wrong because it's a totally different word. But even though I try to teach them, the teacher still say redi, so it's futile!
Another thing that bugs me is that the teachers threatens them with the stick (or as she says: sticki). It's soooo wrong because she just scares them of even trying to learn, in fear to say the wrong word. And the kids in our baby class is just around 2-6 years old, and they are having all their classes in english. We teach them maths, english writing, reading and science. They are about 30 kids in our class and 10 in the "smarter" class and they are really smart as well, especially because of their age! But I think the idea of having kids in different ages in the same class is really bad! Almost all of them should be in kindergarden, BIG failure if you want my oppinion!
I can tell that the teacher really loves the kids although she beat them with the stick sometimes, but that's just the way they do it here. It's like a vicious circle. Sad but true! This is one of the million things that I want to change here before I go home. We are trying to teach her the "shame chair" so if they don't behave well we put them on a chair, were they are only allowed to look into the corner untill they behave nicely. I think the teacher tries to change her habbits but it's hard and a long process.
It's almost dark here so I have to go home before the dark falls. It's really dangerous for an Amzungo to be out alone this late. Take care! Bye! Xxx
// Therese
