Baby orphanage

September 1, 2007 by Sheree.

I went to the baby orphanage the last couple days. On Thursday I walked in to the room that my group is normally in and thought for a moment that I was in the wrong room. It was full of new babies. A baby orphanage in another city was closed down and the babies were sent to other places. Instead of putting a couple new babies in each group, they took all my babies and split them up into different groups and gave us all new babies. It’s hard just learning about one new disabled baby but even harder with a whole group of them. It was difficult to get them fed each night plus we had ladies from the other groups coming in to ask how to get a kid that was in our group to eat. Many times the ladies would give up and hand stuff over to me and ask me to try and feed a kid. The kids were pretty bad. One kid had a huge head, others just laid there like vegetables, one girl was standing on her head and doing other wierd things, they were all not normal at all. When we were changing them we had to totally strip them down and inspect every square inch of their bodies. In Russia they use something that is green and is litterally called “green stuff”. Most people see our pictures of kids with green dots on them and think the kid played with a marker but in fact it’s kind of like iodine that they put on any soar or bug bite to keep it from getting infected. Any little dot on a baby was covered with green stuff and I went home that night with green hands that will be green for a while. Even though it may not seem like it, most of these kids have a lot going on inside their brains. Many of them are smart and know what’s going on around them. Some of them must be feeling scared now in a new home with new people caring for them. I was glad that I could be one of the first faces they saw and could comfort them and welcome them to their new home. I know that Jesus is there in the room with them.

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