TEAMWorks China - Tuesday, November 12th

Nov 12, 2013
China

We got to go inside the orphanage today. When we arrived, some of the staff had moved all of our supplies and equipment to the room in the orphanage we were allowed to use. The room is a nice, large, clean room with a fun mural painted on the walls.

We talked to the head nanny about setting up the room with all the supplies we had brought because we wanted to leave them for the kids. She was thankful and wanted us to do whatever was best for the kids as far as structuring the room.

The wonderful thing was that the nannies started bringing the kids in from their beds to this large multi-purpose room to explore and play with the toys. The children loved getting back into our toy bins and finding their favorite things. We were able to get some really fun pictures of the children playing together. There were kids on the mats playing, taking turns in the stander, walking with a gait trainer, sitting in corner chairs, and in new wheelchairs.

At lunchtime we pulled the wedges back out and discussed the importance of using them when feeding. We were allowed to go in the room and put one in each child’s bed.

We walked to lunch today since it wasn’t raining. We enjoys dumplings at a little street side café . The quantities of food these people want to feed us is insane. We often have lots of laughs about how much food ends up on our table at mealtime.

After lunch we strolled through a few stores between the café and the orphanage. We are quite the hit in the area. We had a large paparazzi experience. At some of the shops, the workers would run out and wave and yell like we were a part of One Direction.

A whirlwind of activity happened in the afternoon;

Assessing the remainder of the children
Educating on orthotics and stander use
Modeling language activities to do during play with a small group of children

We had dinner with the two directors of the orphanage and the head nanny at a top-notch restaurant. Once again there was tons of good food. We had an opportunity to thank them for sharing their kids with us. We talked about the willingness of the nannies to implement the suggestions we had given and their eagerness to learn more about how to help the children. We asked about a return trip and they said they would definitely want us back.

The team following us arrived at the hotel while we were finishing dinner. We met with them once we got back to the hotel and discussed what we had done this week. We gave them ideas of things to follow-up on and some info on the children. They asked to shadow us in the morning and go over charts before head back to Nanning. We will pass the baton around 1:30pm.

Please pray for Sarah, Mark, and Lydia. All three of these children have life-threatening conditions. We are working on ways to comfort them and / or help the conditions that are in desperate need of attention.

We will always remember these little ones we have met this week. Please pray their forever families find them as soon as possible.

*Please pray that our ladies have rest and the endurance to have a productive last day at the orphanage tomorrow and a safe trip home! Please enjoy a day with TEAMWorks in pictures!