Kids' Games

One aspect of our work here is reaching out to children. Some of our younger team members and their friends visit a nearby orphanage a couple of times a week to play with the children. These visits are not for the faint-hearted. The facility is foul smelling, poorly equipped and under-staffed. Many of the children are malnourished. Diapers, bedding and clean clothes are in short supply. Some of the children have curable medical problems which are left untreated.

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you.”
(Jn 14:18)

Some of the more sporty people on our team have regular outreaches to children’s homes, orphanages and camps for Chechen refugee children. They host kids’ games – a fun-filled program of sports, activities and competitions. Some of the children, especially those from nearby, war-torn Chechnya, have lost not one, but several male family members in the ongoing conflict. Sadly, this present generation of children in Chechnya is fast becoming the last remnant of their homeland.

I love this picture of this lad in his school uniform.