Here is a group shot of all the students from SCCLC and some of the kids from the orphanage. This was at the end of the day so they are not their freshest :)
This blue used to be white and always dirty from little hands. This is what I was doing all day. I used a plastic bag and textured the walls. They loved it and I had many admirers watching as I painted.
Here is Juan the toucan who cannot fly.
Two students painted this garden scene throughout the entire room. It was very colorful and the girls loved it.
Here is Grant with some of the guys sanding benches.As part of our spiritual emphasis week at SCCLC we had a servant day where all the kids 7th grade-12th picked a location out of about 15 and worked all day. Grant and I led about 15 youth at Talita Cumi, the orphage Grant works at. We had many projects to do and a lot of work got done. The guys started by sanding and varnishing all the benches from the place. Two of the girls worked on a mural in one of the girl's dorm rooms. It was a garden scene and very beautiful.
Some of the other girls sanded and painted other various furniture all of which were in desperate need of attention. I was in charge of painting the dining room and living room and the hallway. We were painting it a dark color because of all the hands that touch the wall the directors said the walls are always really dirty and the light color showed too much dirt. Two girls painted the base coat blue and then I went behind them and textured all the walls to help hide dirt even more.
The orphanage has a toucan and right now Grant is trying to build it a cage because it makes a mess all over the place. It's really cute though and very tame the kids were petting him all day.
We worked from 8:30 until 2:30 which is a very long day to kids who aren't used to physical work but they did a great job and stuck it out.
Some of the other girls sanded and painted other various furniture all of which were in desperate need of attention. I was in charge of painting the dining room and living room and the hallway. We were painting it a dark color because of all the hands that touch the wall the directors said the walls are always really dirty and the light color showed too much dirt. Two girls painted the base coat blue and then I went behind them and textured all the walls to help hide dirt even more.
The orphanage has a toucan and right now Grant is trying to build it a cage because it makes a mess all over the place. It's really cute though and very tame the kids were petting him all day.
We worked from 8:30 until 2:30 which is a very long day to kids who aren't used to physical work but they did a great job and stuck it out.
