So humbling, we had 5 children to visit and they initially came to the church that helps them, with their parents. We gave them gifts and felt like the rich westerners, it was a little uncomfortable. Not a scrap of English so my friend Thao came to translate. We then went to visit three of the families and talked to the parents and children. Walking through rice fields, coconut trees all around, very very hot, and quite shocked at how they live :( and their struggle to survive. Yet the kids had dreams, one wanted to be a teacher, another a policeman. And it only costs $160 per year to sponsor their school fees.
We were the first western people one of the kids had seen close up .. What a shock haha
We were moved ...
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