Street kids

Street kid's home

Playing with milk cartons made into cars.

A few of the kids around the home.

Sorry that I haven't updated recently. We've been busy everyday and with more manual labor than I've done in months I'm really tired by the end of the day. But I'm making a point of posting now to tell you about today's project. Soroti has quite a number of street kids. Kids who live in the bus park or in abandoned buildings. They eat what they can steal or scavenge and many sniff glue to get a high that covers up their hunger and hopelessness. There is a home that has been created by local Ugandans as a halfway home for these kids. Right now 16 kids between the ages of 6 and 17 live there. It is an old, empty house where the kids sleep on mats on the floor and use an old pit latrine. A I walked through the first time I couldn't help but think of how small a step it is up from living on the streets. We plan to spend the afternoon building benches with them. They don't even have beds so benches seems a little strange but they need places to sit when they eat and we wanted a project that we can do with the older boys. So we are going, equipped with several hammers and the desire to communicate to these kids that they have value.
Will you pray for our day?
We want to convey far more that how to build a bench and do far more than just fill an afternoon. I'll post more pictures tonight...
Wow, a great day!


Five beautiful benches

Drilling 101

 

Painting the benches



At least no power tool injuries and my dad discovered how good he is at being a huge clamp.

More than just benches were created.

(If you want to read a little more about the street kids Mandy, a teammate, shared here - down near the end of the post.)