Last week we spent a day at an orphanage in Curico. When we arrived there we played with the kids for about an hour. We brought them coloring books, crayons, bouncy balls, and silly bands to play with. People read them stories and held the younger ones. For most of that time I held the babies which were anywhere from 2-8 months. This orphanage was pretty small, about 30 children, which means they get a lot of attention, but even so, a few of the babies had bald spots on the backs of their heads from not being held enough. Seeing little things like that made me grateful that we could help out.
After about an hour we went to the hardware store to buy supplies for a few projects they had asked us to do for them. We bought white paint for a wall outside of the orphanage. It had been covered with graffiti so we painted over everything to make it look nicer. The other project we did was to sand and varnish a small playground. The wood had gotten old so the kids couldn't play on it because they would get bad splinters. These projects only took us a few hours, but the view of the orphanage from the street was much nicer after we finished.
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