Painting at Danai

For the last few weeks we’ve been working on a painting project at one of the children’s homes. They’ve recently had an extension built onto the home that gave them a few extra bedrooms and an office for the social workers that work there.  We’ve been going a couple of days a week and we usually paint in the morning and then play with the kids when they get home from school in the afternoon. We’ve had a few mishaps with not having the right color or enough paint and sketch ladders to work with so it’s been a little slow but we are getting close to finishing now. Hopefully we will finish the last bedroom and the rest of the exterior by Friday. The kids love to help us paint too. As soon as they get home it turns a little chaotic but it’s fun to see them get involved and have fun with us.

We’ve also started a routine with the kids at Danai, splitting them into two groups by their ages and having a devotional time. Tara has been doing devotionals with the older kids that seem to be going really well. They go through scriptures together and she’s even introduced prayer journals to them that have been effective. Some of the other girls and I take the younger kids during the devotional time. There are 11 kids under the age of five so our group is much more rambunctious but we still have a lot of fun with them.