We found out before returning for our second day that some of those beautiful well behaved gorgeous children had been sacrificed into child prostitution before being taken in by the orphanage, sacrificed to gods in prostitution!....the shock, the sickness, what kind of god did people have if thats what they believed pleased them? (Im not about to embark on our god is better than theres, for starters, i believe thre is only one god), but there are things in this country that I thought only existed in biblical times. Rural parts of this state still have temple prostitution and wife burning, dowry (the paying to marry off people) though now illegal is still practiced, and the hindu cast system still keeps people in poverty. There were many thing things I was discovering about this country that shocked me.
We went back with some stuff to educate the children on personal hygene with the alterior motive to include self worth and value in gods eyes to combat the past scars and mindsets without directly tackling things we did not have time to open. We taught on brushing teeth and washing hands, and taking care of you body parts. we washed the childrens hands to show them how (it sounds so simple in the west but here dont forget you eat with one hand and clean yourself with the other, this was simple but essencial teaching) and also as a form of loving (and appropriate) contact, praying and blessing them quietly as we did so. these kids were beautiful, it finally gave a face to things you simply know of or campaign against.
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