What a great Saturday, so much happening in one day.
After breakfast all the children helped finish off the base painting of the playground walls and the fence posts we put in yesterday.
With help from a couple of the boys I attached the chain link fence, finishing that early afternoon.
In anticipation of the afternoons music session the children got everything ready for Freds arrival and got into some practise.
For a while I joined in with Gu , Tai and Jack with them playing drums and keyboard and me playing flute.
For a while it was sounding sweet and I’m sure we will be doing much more of that in the future.
A little after 3pm Fred arrived with Ally and Li Li Tan.
Its been a while since we’ve seen Li Li and the kids were all very happy to see her.
While the music lesson went on Li Li did some work on one of the unfinished Murals, ably assisted by Som. Jor , May and Nu also joined in after the music had finished.
It was another great lesson by Fred, with the children working on the Beatles classic “Let It Be”.
Local Support Getting Ready For First Arrivals
Things are moving forward a pace as the playground fence starts to take shape and we await our first scheduled placements arrival around November 1.
Today we had a show of local support for the project when a work crew came to fit our wall fans stating that they simply wanted feeding and a little towards petrol for their trouble. As you can imagine this was a great boost to our morale as we are obviously keen to have the local community behind us and supporting the Childrens Home.
We do have our first scheduled placement due to start on November the first after learning of the predicament of one of the pupils at the school at which I teach, when teachers informed us of his difficult circumstances.
After some difficulties in finding his present location we did finally make contact and, after a careful assessment of his circumstances were happy to offer him a placement.
This meeting also led on to discussion about two other cases of children who may be in need of help and we hope to arrange a meeting soon to assess their needs also.
