Day 2

Bags of food that cost us less than $2 per each child we fed.

One of our teammates, Jen, turned 40 today and for her birthday she wanted to visit the village where Never lives--the boy on Oprah's show 5 years ago--and feed the whole village.  We bought about 100 cans of Cokes/Fanta Orange drinks for them and chicken and rice bowls.  We didn't have enough as our presence attracted everyone around but the kids and adults were very gracious and patient while they lined up and waited to be served.  We had to divide 1 box of 3 pieces of chicken and rice among 6 children but it worked just fine.  We each took a group of 6 away from the crowd with their food and opened up the box for them.  The reaction was almost one of delighted confusion as some of them ate it right up with their little fingers and others seemed like they wanted to wait and make it last.  I do not know when the last time was they had that much food to eat but from the looks of things it had been quite a while.  Here are some of the pictures of these beautiful children and the amazing day we had with them.

Most of these kids had not seen foreigners before.

Patiently waiting in line for food and treats.

Me, Never, and Tyler Page.  Never is 20 now and doing very well since being rescued 5+ years ago.

I have to get up in less than 4.5 hours for our 8 hour journey to the Lake Volta region to start the rescue mission so I need to end this but I don't want to.  I feel like I have already lived a lifetime here with these people under these conditions.  I cannot wait to start the important work tomorrow of freeing 10 children from this life.