Your gifts

We remembered to bring our camera today to take some photos of what has happened with the gifts many of you have given to CDO.

You may remember that some of your gifts were used to help make CDO Orphanage less reliant on donations and to help create some income. Here are the bikes they rent out to tourists.

Here are the baby chickens they bought with the money. They are in some land they have leased behind the orphanage. Every night "Pa" (dad) has to sleep out here to prevent thieves from stealing the chicks. In the time we have been here, there has been a few attempted robberies. Its sad to see this happen when they have very little worth stealing.

The gas cooker is almost ready to be moved into the kitchen, but already it is being used (to our surprise). We had expected them to be a bit more wary of using gas, but we heard how wonderful it was that you could just turn on the stove and cook. With charcoal it takes a long time to get the coals hot enough to cook on. In the photo below you can see they have used it for lunch. When the concrete dries they will cover the gas bottles. They are making some changes to the kitchen (right side of the photo) so they can move the stove to where the kids will not be tempted to fiddle with the knobs.