Travel

We love to travel. Up until now our travel has been limited to work or pleasure. We are now adding LAMb activities to our travels! This blog will hopefully allow you to follow our adventures. Our thoughts, our views, dreams, and adventures. Follow along if you wish. If no one follows that's fine as well. It's just a place for us to remember . . .

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Visiting an Orphanage in Bishkek


We had a wonderful time visiting one of the orphanages that LAMb supports –  Svetli Put.  These 3 girls are sewing felt animals to be part of a nativity set.  In doing so, they are developing an occupational skill, as well as the items are sold to raise some money for the orphanage. It also gives the girls some sense of worth, since they are able to create something that people want.

Though this was an enjoyable experience, I look at these pictures and am very distraught.  Statistically 2 of these 3 girls will be destroyed by drugs, prostitution, sex slavery or simply disappear soon after aging out of the orphanage. There are a number of reasons for this, which I will not go into here, but things are slowly improving. Please pray for the orphans of Kyrgyzstan and if possible donate to one of the organizations that are working to improve this system.

Randy




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