TODAY WAS AN AWESOME DAY - as we went first thing this morning to an exhibition sponsored by the Association of NGOS for Promotion of Rights and Interests of Children in the Kyrgyz Republic. The exhibition has many booths of different NGOs who are here in Kyrgyzstan. During the exhibition, there was a show of different orphanages with children singing, dancing and showing their talents. One such act was from a home where disabled children live - they did a BREAK DANCE. It stopped the crowd. See the video here to once again be reminded of how we must give everyone a chance to learn, grow and develop in ways that sometimes seems impossible. After the exhibition we met up with more LAMb team members - John, Julie and Emma and went then on to Swetlie Put - the orphanage in Bishkek. Our visiting team was going there to gather data to prepare for the conference we are doing with them on May 6th. While there we visited the children in the craft and arts room - they were having a great time making items - See the video of them! Our team bought slippers and gave the children lots of praise for their beautiful work. Next and last stop was Red River orphanage - the children were having a yard day - they each were assigned a zone and were "beautifying" the flower beds, yard and garden. They looked happy and pleased to show us their work and again another chance to encourage them and give them lots of praise for their beautiful gardens. Again our visiting team met with staff to discuss the conference we are conducting. Peggy and Dr. Jordan are hard at work - putting together a great conference to help all the different staff who are working with children in the orphanages - stay tuned for the report of the conference later next week.
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