Feeding the orphans at HOIA (House of Innocent Angels), one of 5 orphanages we visited while we were in Moz. It is a lot smaller than the baby orphanage. They lay their laundry outside on the grass to dry and they bathe from buckets but the children seem very happy and loved. There is one little boy there that everyone loves, his name is mashecky...only I don't know how to spell it...he has bad skin problems, I think someone said it was scabies, but if you got him to dance you would understand how cool this kid is. I'll post a video of it.
My first visit there we took beads and string and made bracelets and neaklaces with the kids. One of the girls there named Sara around 14 years old was my buddy and she made me a bracelet that I ended up wearing the entire time I was in Africa. I love it because the mozambiqueans love it. Every day I had babies grab it and touch it, Armindo would sit on my lap and say the color of each bead and then count them one by one. I even had teenagers and adult women tell me they liked it and smile huge and some would point to the beads in their hair. I was so proud of my little plastic beaded bracelet.
Mashecky's dance
The girl in the Strawberry Shortcake shirt has a twin and those two girls are the coolest tom boys i've ever met and the boys were fun to hang with too. Just cool kids.
This little boy is 2 years old.... ridiculous.
This little girl is SO cute! Big smile and cute little bum, she was wearing a dress and nothing else.
That's the orphanage's laundry in the back ground drying on the ground.
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