In April, Alley and I spoke to the kids about how we celebrate Easter in America. My mom sent us some Easter egg dying kits for the kids. So we boiled 300 eggs and the children came to our house and dyed eggs. When I was explaining the dying of eggs, hiding the eggs, and finding the eggs, the kids were silent. So when I told them after they find the eggs, they get to eat them, they broke out in applause and cheering!!!
The children and house mothers stayed at our house while, Alley, the teachers, and I hide the eggs in the orphanage. As you can see in the picture, the kids are running down the hill from our house to the village to find the eggs. After they found their eggs, they hid eggs for their house mothers to find. It was a very fun day!
The children color their eggs click for the picture.
Running to Find Eggs! click for picture
The students have received their new uniforms and they are looking sharp!
New uniforms! click for the picture
And the winter (yes, it’s about to be winter in Malawi!) coats have been distributed and the children are ready!!!
Winter Coats! click for the picture
The Children are very proud of the harvest from their maize garden they planted! The maize is still wet and so now we are preparing it to be dried and then it will be ready to be taken to the maize mill.
A-maize-ing click for picture
