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
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