You Put a Smile Back on a Child’s Face

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Roger

Whenever I step onto the campus at Liberty School, like yesterday, I feel two overwhelming and seemingly opposite feelings.
First, I feel the reality of the school’s ever present needs:

• Never enough school supplies
• Teachers underpaid as they struggle to serve voluntarily these vulnerable children
• Some children facing difficult home situations
• And more

As one missionary-friend likes to say, “This is Africa.”
On the other hand, I simultaneously experience enormous gratitude at seeing these 300+ amazingly happy children learning, growing, and playing (note pics and video).
Why?

• They ARE getting the real essentials of nourishment and care
• They ARE receiving one of the best educations in the country. Amazingly this school of underpaid teachers continually ranks among the highest in test scores
• They ARE experiencing an environment that is safe and that allows them to be what they are…children.

And, for most of these children, though they lack ALL of the childhood toys and accoutrements that we think of as ‘normal’ back home, what they are receiving is ENOUGH for them to learn, grow, and enjoy their childhood.
You are definitely helping us put a smile on each of these faces!