The Children

The children here are so beautiful. We have had so much fun visiting with them. They are everywhere. Yesterday when we visited one of the villages to see one of the sewing co~ops the children surrounded us like a little swarm. When we first arrived there were a few children and those few followed us to the back of the road to the sewing room. We talked a bit to the women sewing and when we turned around there were about 15 children! It was precious!

Here are a few pictures of some of the children we have seen while we have been in Poipet.

This boy was at the village where we were able to see “School on the Mat” in session. He was playing while some of the other children were in school.

Here he is again.

This tiny, tiny little girl was so shy. She would not look at me or smile. I just got lucky with this picture.

Are you noticing all of the trash that surrounds these children?

I think this is the sister of the little girl above. She was so sweet. She did smile at me!

Some of the children from “School on a Mat” singing a song with hand motions.

These are the same children from above doing one of their lessons.

The children are putting out the mat for school at a different village.

This is our friend Kip, an Australian man, here with the organization “Be a Hero”. He was playing Mouy, Mouy, Bee {Duck, Duck Goose} with the children!

The little boy was trying so hard to catch Kip!

These children live on the grounds at the hospital, we believe their parents work there.

Precious little man! So funny! It took him a while to warm up to us but once he did he followed us around and would push us and then laugh.

So pretty!

This boy is 7 years old, he has HIV, and his parents are dead.

School children.

Little poser!

Street girl playing with her toy zebra.

This precious girl lived in a village where there is a sewing school.

Isn’t she beautiful?

This little boy just tore my heart out! He is covered in little round sores all over his body. I am not sure what he has, someone suggested infantigo.

Look at that beautiful face, precious.