November 1, 2008

• CAMBODIA

  After my short visit to Myanmar (see previous entry below) I went to Cambodia for about 4 full days.  I visited a number of orphanages and stayed with Pastor Sinai and his family.  He heads New Hope 4 Orphans in Cambodia (http://www.nho.org.kh/).  Enjoy the video clip and pictures from my visit there!

  In this clip one of the boys from the orphanage went up a coconut tree with a machete and is cutting off some coconuts for us to eat.  Two other boys are catching the coconuts with a blanket.  First time I’ve seen this…

  This is a picture of one of the first orphanages… a poor hut built on stilts because of flooding (Pastor Sinai is to the right)

  

  This is where the girls sleep and keep their stuff

  

  This is a new home under construction… much nicer!

  

  All the other homes I visited were like the new one above… here are three girls and a little boy in one of the girl dorms at another home

  

  Here are some of the boys in the boys’ dorm

  

  The littlest one in this home

  

  The kitchen… old school (every home had outhouses and a well for water)

  

  One of the girls with a puppy… the kids loved having their picture taken

  

  Cute naked boy and some girls playing on the swings

  

  Some of the other boys… playgrounds are a great blessing for the kids

  

  Some of the kids posing

  

  Bye-bye!

  

  A Christian international school located in one of the orphanages… 10 of the kids from this home are able to attend it so their English is very good.  Quite a blessing!

  

  A banana tree in one of the homes… I wish my home had fruit trees!

  

  This home had a small farm in it… here are some of the piglets (and a cute girl)

  

  Mama pig

  

  Chickens!

  

  The barns from a distance

  

  Rebecca, Angela, and Deborah… Pastor Sinai’s children

  

  Playing soccer with some of the boys

  

  Most of the homes also have churches in them and I attended the Phnom Penh orphanage’s church on the Sunday I was there.  Here is the praise team.  All of the boys grew up in the children homes.  Some are still in high school, but most are currently attending Bible college.  They were anointed!  Praise God!

  

  A couple kids wanted to be in the picture too… I allowed them to be in the second one, but soon almost all the kids wanted to be in it!  My white knees stick out quite a bit…

  

  One of the dinners I ate at Pastor Sinai’s, cooked by his wife Somalay (the mangoes on the bottom right were killer, my mouth is watering just looking at them)

  

  Somalay and one of the girls who grew up in one of the homes and now lives with Pastor Sinai’s family and helps take care of the house

  

  I also met this girl while at a market in Phnom Penh.  I was trying to decide which tropical fruit juice to order and I asked her what she was having (she was the only other foreigner around).  I talked with her a little and thought she was European because of her accent… but then found out she is American, is deaf, and was reading my lips!  I’ve never met a lip reader or deaf person who could speak so well.  Cool stuff!  Her name is Ronise and she teaches at a school for deaf children in the city.

  

  Hope you enjoyed the pictures.  God bless!

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