Muraho! Greeting with Rwanda!
We have continued our journey with Christ and our adventure in
Rwanda with the Compassion children! Compassion is an international
organization which seeks out children in need and couples them with a sponsor. The
funds sent supports the child's education, health and overall creates a better
quality of life. Currently, Compassion is serving over 85,000 children in
Rwanda alone and is continuing to expand.
Today we met with Teresa and the Wilson's compassion children.
John and Barbara sponsor a young girl named Annunciata who is eleven years old.
Teresa's children are named Fiston (4), Thirry (9), Solange (11), Alexia (14)
and Gentile (18). We were able to meet all the children except for Teresa's
oldest child who was away at boarding school taking exams. The children were
very sweet. They sang and danced for us and even let us join in, which was a
good activity to break the ice. Then, they each present their Compassion
parents with a present and the parents gave their kids each a gift. It was like
Christmas! Each kid was given a backpack with notebooks, pencils, crayons and
various toys to enjoy. Fiston in particular loved his toy truck and we enjoyed
playing soccer with the rest of the kids.
We visited with the Compassion kids for almost four hours,
enjoying their company and their smiles :) It was sad to say goodbye, but it
was a great visit. A little later we walked to the Zion Hill Projects and were
greeted by a whole school of children singing songs to end their school day. We
introduced each of ourselves and the children were especially happy with
Patrick because there was a girl named Patricia in the group. They were
confused when Chris told them he was ten years old, but they also thought it
was very funny :)
Overall it was a great day. Looking forward to the great days
to come.
Abigail Jordan
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