Hello from Africa!

We are here and everything is great! The flights went well and we got all our luggage and were picked up by someone from the organization. We stayed one night with a host family in a nice house in a slum area and then we got picked up this morning for orientation. Jaimie and I are placed in an orphanage with about 50 girls from age 3 to 15. We will be living there at the orphanage and it seems as though we came just in time. The kids have not eaten since yesterday and it is now tuesday evening. We are going to get about a month supply of food tonight with some of our funds that we raised so that the children won’t go hungry anymore, well at least while we are here they won’t, I hope to be able to raise more money to continue to feed these little ones. I am excited to meet the children and to be able to offer them some things that they have never gotten the chance to see or do. We will be teaching, cleaning cooking, playing, singing etc with the girls and | hear they are a lively bunch, always singing and dancing...starting at 5am=) We are told they are pretty religious too, praying about 5 times a day. The orphanage is called Neema Land Queen’s Home. There won’t be any showers and there will be just breakfast (bread and tea) and dinner (some sort of a mush) so thank goodness for our costco pack of protein bars! Anyway, we gotta run, but we are close to the office so we will be able to check in more often.

Wish us Luck!!!

Carly and Jaimie