A small but welcome sleep-in before breakfast before heading up to the project which consists of a school, the original house that was used as home for the orphans and the prayer Room.
First stop was the schoolrooms as the kids had been waiting for us for ages and they weren’t allowed their breakfast until after we turned up. There were three classrooms with the kids ranging between three and a half and five. In each classroom the kids sung to us and in return we had to sing to them. That’s possibly another story on its own but we managed. We then passed over some books we had brought and read the stories. I think there was almost a few tears on our parts to see these little faces all clean and in uniform. Hard to describe the emotions it brought on but I think Margaret could have adopted 120 kids there and then.
We help hand out the children’s breakfasts and then went up to the house for refreshments and a tour. The house was the original building and was picked up cheap back in 2005 as the original owners went broke. It had a lot of marble and was well kitted out. The school was built next on a site five minutes away then they purchased the block of land out behind the house and built the Prayer room on it. The roof leaked a bit so the they built another roof over the top of that which gave them a big open space on top. A space was also provided next to the auditorium for a sewing room kitted out with old treadle sewing machines just like mum used to have.
Back to the hotel for another very short rest before coming back at 4pm to the Prayer room where the kids were putting on a concert for us. A 30 minute break while we waited for the power to come back on before we could start, apparently a regular occurrence. They had a band with older musicians and singers before the kid all did their bits and yes we got to put on a bit of a performance as well. The kids did a great job putting us to shame and it was a lot of fun. Everybody was then feed and watered before we were able to slip back to the hotel.