Food parcels

A new feeding scheme has been started over here. Once a month 200 orphans that have been identified by the local hospital will receive a food parcel enough to feed them for a whole month. Most of these kids look after themselves and their younger siblings and live in a small tin shack. They live in a valley, it took them 45 minutes to walk up the valley to come and get their food parcel. They then had to walk back down carrying the food parcel that some of them could hardly lift. We were warned not to go down there.

There was a girl named wendy, dressed as a boy, we thought she was a boy until we found out her name. She dresses like that because she is on her own and if she looks like a boy there is less chance of anything happening to her. Then we discovered that her mother is in hospital and she cant attend school because there is no-one to pay for it or supply her with the uniform and book. It costs £10 for school for the year!!! One of the volunteers here is sorting out getting her into school, but how many others are there that don't attend school because they don't have £10?!