Along with our work of evangelism and helping Kanisa La Neema to build a school we have taken on the joy of adding kids from the local orphanage into our house.  We first learned of the orphanage shortly after coming out to Sumbawanga.  It is a house for 53 kids from ages 0-6.  Many of the kids there have lost both parents due to AIDS and other illnesses.  Others have lost only one parent but often when parents remarry they do not take their kids from previous marriages into their new families.  The result is many kids with parents being left as orphans.  Becca began visiting and playing with the kids several times a week.  Over time our involvement grew and it broke our hearts to think of these 53 kids with only a limited staff of nuns and helpers there.  The workers do an incredible job to keep the place and the kids clean and healthy but their personal interaction is limited due to their small numbers.  We have begun to take in 2 of the older kids each week to share with them a world beyond the orphanage walls.  We share with them the market in town, some candy in a favorite little shop, our lives and our kids toys.  Here are some pictures of two of our favorites Marta and Lydia.