What could be better than kids helping kids?
This week I was invited to participate in “Africa Day” at Pembroke Hill School. (My own kids each spent thirteen years at this wonderful place!) The eighth graders have been studying Africa for a few weeks now. “Africa Day” was the culmination of this curriculum. In the morning I showed “Changing the Truth,” Lynne Melcher’s second film about CTT. The kids asked some really good questions and seemed truly interested in the work we are doing at St. Mary Kevin Orphanage.
In the afternoon, I taught the kids how to make paper beads. The eighth graders took their new skill and ran with it, making lots of pairs of beautiful earrings. They plan to sell them and give all the proceeds to CTT so that the kids they met in the movie (and in the pictures and letters I shared) will have a better shot at life.
Some of the students also wrote pen pal letters.
I always feel so inspired by kids, especially those who want to reach out and grab the hand of someone their own age who happens to be in need. It’s just a good feeling all the way around.
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