Last Wednesday and Thursday Rachel and I visited and volunteered at the Tree of Life Orphanage http://familylegacy.com/tree-of-life/.
There are currently about 160 children who live there and are expanding to about 300 children, most of whom have HIV and come from really horrible homes from physical and emotional abuse to prostitution.
The facilities are beautiful, the house mothers and children behave like a family and they have a school on the property so the children even walk to school! We really enjoyed spending time with the kids, they are so happy and welcoming. They sang us songs and taught us some of their native language , Nyanja.
On Wednesday we just spent time with the kids, talking and playing and on Thursday we spent the entire day working to ensure new children got school uniforms and better fitting uniforms for the kids who have lived there for some time. We are planning to go back to create a library for them and do some physical activity with them!
