Day one of the Orphanage

We started our day off with breakfast at Patachoulle and a GOF meeting.

Typical back street on the way to the orphanage.

This is Dr. Marion and Etienne "Ety", the in-country program director (also our man when we came to get Della in 2013).

Here are a few of the babies.

Here is Moies, he's 4 months old and 5.73 lbs.  He had just been hospitalized for 2 weeks due to severe malnutrition.

More babies

This is one of the Mama's, Josee.  (Not to be confused with Della's foster Mama Josee)

I had the privilege to hold Joel while the staff was shown how to use a nebulizer for breathing treatments.

There are over 80 children that live here.

Rebecca Siegrist passing out stickers to the children.

A view of the trashed filled street right outside the orphanage walls.

Tomorrow we'll visit the second orphanage.  It's hard to put into words what I've seen.....but, pulls at my heart harder than anything I've ever felt.