This week, our new friend Jim (from the Haven Project) drove our team about 7 hours north to work with Burmese refugees, orphans, and displaced children. Our mission was to teach these kids about hygiene and overall healthy living, which I realized is a privilege to grow up learning. One of the locations we served at is literally referred to as a “rubbish school” because of its location on a dump.
We may have been teaching about hygiene and healthy living, but we definitely got our hands dirty.
This is our host, Dr. Jane! She’s from Australia but has been living in Thailand doing ministry full time for 12 years with The Haven Project. Some of her projects include working with the hygiene clinics and doing house checks for children’s homes (seen above)!
After the hygiene clinics we were able to join Dr. Jane in her house checks and assist her by taking the heights and weights, asking them questions about their eating, sleeping, eyesight, etc., (with a translator, Samula!) and check out their teeth!
This is Rochelle and Laney! Rochelle and her husband, Zeb, are from Kansas and have been living and serving in Thailand for the past 3 years. Rochelle set up and organized all the lessons and stations of the hygiene clinics!
Body care with baby dolls in the bath tub!
Healthy Eating lesson demonstrated through the hungry caterpillar reading and game!
Learnig about healthy habits for hand washing with colored pictures!
Practicing good hand washing through glow paint and a black light flashlight!
Active living through kids yoga!
Injury and infection care with ketchup boo-boos!
Healthy Eating through “happy” and “sad” food relay races!
Learning how to brush your teeth through colored pictures!
Practicing teethbrushing with giant chompers and a giant toothbrush (yeah, it’s a toilet bowl scrubber)
Learning about the importance of hydration and the many ways water leaves our bodies!
Can I bring this little man home with me?
One of the greatest things about the World Race is getting to see how different ministry can look in every location we visit! This month has been incredible seeing an immediate outcome of our work (like kids reminding each other to wash the butt or the fingernails of the baby doll after I’d just taught them where to wash themselves when it was their turn)! Also, how do kids have so much energy???
“Pure and true religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.” -James 1:27
