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We negotiate a three-year lease on additional land for eight more homes with the village leaders…
While Agus Helly translates; The meeting is held under a traditional home built on stilts…
After the agreement, the meeting participants take a tour of the 3,000 sq. meter property…
Here we will house an additional 56 children in seven homes and our staff in the OI Sumatera Staff House.
Agus Helly, Director of Bali house, helps out reading to the children…
Rahmiyana enjoys posing for pictures in front of her new home as well as with her new house mates.
The boys are always full of life and smiles and laughter fill the air.
While the girls jump rope and laugh the day away.
Sarah takes a break from a game of badminton…
While Bahrizal waits for the next match.
Rahmiyana, once shy and introverted, is now happy and playful with Laila Mutia…
But she never strays from her studies.
Jacques Africot from Haiti plays soccer with the boys from our home and from the village…
While the future leaders of Aceh and Orphans International act like boys do all over the world.
And the fine young ladies who have an air of royalty to their way of being.
Bahrizal is the proud to be the biggest and strongest in the house.
Agus teaches the kids that a strong mind is just as important as a strong body.
Laila Mutia and Sarah sharing the international peace sign with all.
The children in front of multifunction room with Yuri, Dani and Jacques.
The children of Orphans International Sumatera face a bright future with help from around the world.
And help from around the world is available to the children of Orphans International Sumatera.
Post Script: Our funding ran out in the fourth year of the program but the children had not yet been united with their extended families; we needed a little longer for the families to recover and come forward. So I cashed out my 401-k and kept the children’s village alive for an additional year – just long enough so that every child found a home with a long-lost aunt, uncle or even older sibling.
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