大家好! Come and share your love&joy with these kids!

Jambo, friends and family!

(斯瓦希里语: 你们好吗？) 亲人朋友们！

Thanks to IVHQ, Ingrid Fan(Taiwan) & Ya Wang(SZ,China) are currently volunteering at Elshaddai Orphanage in Githurai, Kenya. Elshaddai is the humble little home for 25 kids, age from 6 months to 17 years old.

很感谢国际志愿者总部，让来自台湾的范秀明和中国深圳的王雅能够来到肯尼亚首都附近Githurai镇

的Elshaddai孤儿院做义工。 这是一个25个孩子(6个月大的Issac到17岁的Benjamin)共同生活的小家。

This is a courtyard shared with many other tenants in the plot, behind the blue doors are the toilet(hole on the ground) and shower room(bucket shower). On the left is the laundry area where there's a waste stream going though a pipe towards the drainage ditch beside the road. They can only do laundry when there's running water which is once a week if lucky. And on the right is the kitchen(back), storage for firewood and water. 

下面第一张照片中是一个与其他租户共享的庭院， 蓝色门背后是卫生间(水泥地上的窟窿)和洗澡间

(用塑料桶提水浇在身在)。左边是洗涤区，硬泥土地面，中间一条浅溪流过水管，直到远处墙角围栏

下与街道边污水沟相连！运气好的时候，水管一周有一次自来水，这时候大家抓紧洗涤早已堆积如山

的脏衣服。右侧边的两个门分别是厨房和储藏间(存放烧火用的木头、鸡笼和无数存水用的塑料桶)。

Besides almost no running water, there's no electricity here... so after sunset, since we only have two kerosine lamps (one in the kitchen and one in the living room), children eat their dinner in the dark courtyard with their hands.

Life is SO not easy, yet they are still giving thanks for every meal!

除了一周难得一次的自来水，这里没有电(资金原因，房租同样是大问题)， 因此日落后院子里一片

漆黑。只有厨房和2楼客厅有煤油灯，晚上8、9点的时候，孩子们只有聚集在院子里摸黑吃晚餐。

生活如此艰难，他们依然在每顿饭前祷告感谢！

View from the steel stairs to courtyard

The pipe and waste stream

The front gate, they only rent 2 rooms upstairs and the kitchen,storage

    

Girls' room, every two kids share one bed.

Their living room, they do homework here.

View from upstairs to the courtyard.

Roman5:3-5: but we frejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering gproduces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hhope does not put us to shame, because God's love ihas been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.