All of the housing at the orphanage was red brick and very nice. Grounds were lovely and an open pagoda was in the middle of the grounds for picnics and performances. We had a box lunch in the pagoda after viewing the building and grounds. The children were clean and neat and school age children wore uniforms.

Of the 150 children seven do have AIDS and only a select few of the adults know who they are so none of the other children will shun them. The philosophy of this orphanage is to keep the children in homelike settings so each home has a mother and about 7 children ranging in age of 17 to 5 or 14 to 2 to make it resemble a real family unit.

After distributing the boxes to the 15 homes we were blessed with a performance by the children. As we were sitting in the Pagoda watching the performance Rose was visited by two brothers who cozied up and cuddled her during the performance. They did not want to leave her side. Rose just had her 80th birthday and is a very nice and savy lady. The photo is dark but it is worth noting.