Africa's babies are beautiful

Yesterday we flew to a rural village on the east coast. We went to two schools, like preschools and the kids are so young. they have big wide eyes that stare at you like all children. some are smiling and they stick out their fingers with a thumbs up sign, but it's not a thumbs up it's a different way to say hello, so you put your thumb to their tiny ones and do this snap thing. when we go into the classrooms, the kids are all sitting down and they are so quiet when you put their shoes on, but then when they have shoes on them, they jump up and go outside to play (picture Zak and Geoff with all these little kids sitting in a line going up and down the see-saw). The third place we went to there was a house of sorts and this one woman feeds the children of the entire village.. like 300-400 children who all come after school with their bowls for their meal which they get twice a day. a grain porrage that has vitamins and nutrients that they need. We drove away from the village and there was one little girl coming down the rocky hill wearing her red and white stripe little TOMS. we didn't need a camera but everyone in our car cherished the moment of seeing her.
there was also this older child carrying a baby that I was putting shoes on.. and the wind kept blowing my hair in my mouth and each time she kept sweeping the hair out of my hair as if to help me. we are giving them shoes but they have given us all so much more. we will start our second day and i only hope for more of what i felt today.