Today we had visitors - a cousin of one of our managers came to visit us here with intention of helping with some car registration documents.
Whilst we were chatting in the reception area, children were served dinner. With interest, they wanted to see how we are handling the children. They saw some of the children in the class room seated, with their table mats, plates full of food, fork and towels around their necks... and asked "Why are they not eating?" Our mama replied.. "because we have not finished serving the food.." and then she continued: "They are waiting for all the children to have food, and then they all start eating after prayer.. " ... between one of our child shouted "Aunty, Rachel does not have a fork: and run to the kitchen to pick the fork for her".. The visitors continued watching our children to close their eyes, one of them leading to the prayers by saying "Lets pray" and then all children at once said "O God Thanks for this food, we shall going to eat, Amen". And then all our children started eating.. They could not stop wonder when each child -when finished their food- took the plates, mats and forks, and took it to the kitchen and said "Thank you for cooking". ...
Then they watched our 2 young children age 4 and 6 washing dishes and drying them (we train them to do some simple but important house work, so each day, different child is asked to wash dishes, dry dishes, sweep the floor... etc) They saw our children looking after one another, our little 5 year old feeding little Sophie 2 years with super food and giving her water (which they go themselves to pick to the water filter).. Our visitors were simply amazed.. it made them to pick up their mobiles and called to their homes to say how these children behave beautifully compare to their own!
It makes me so so happy to see that all our visitors can notice the difference!!!!!
I must be so blessed to be able to explain and experience what "making a difference" mean.. :-)
