They have had us running on some pretty tight schedules and the place we are staying in Nepal is quite a ways out of town, so we don't have easy access to the internet, except when we are at the hospital. I'm going to upload a few more pictures and hopefully get to add some more narrative before we leave. I'll be working to catch up once we get back of course, but it is neat for family and friends to see things we are doing now.
These pictures are from our visit to the Living Springs orphanage. We attended and helped with church services there. We ate lunch with the children and toured the grounds. There was also a nearby brick factory. It is quite the throwback in time and space to the days of Moses. They are chopping the clay out of the ground with hand tools, loading it onto hand carts, then carrying it to the place were they mix it and make it into bricks. The men and women help carry the bricks to the underground kiln. The big smoke stack is the exhaust from the kilns. These folks are living near the bottom of the heap, mainly to have a place to sleep and enough food to get to the next day. Some of their children are sitting on a pile of bricks.
We were split up into to small groups to help out in various Mother Teresa locations, and the one I was assigned was the House of the Dying. Not everyone there was dying, some just had some really bad infections and didn't have any place else to recover properly, but most were dying. The men and women are separated, but to think in a city of 13+ million people, there are only 50 men that are dying and don't have a roof over their heads or food to eat surely isn't any where close to reality. I was allowed to take one picture and this is it.
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