Roslin Orphanage Blog

First we are so happy with the roof changed from the asbestos roof into a zink roof. We are more certain that such illnesses like Mesothelioma will be able to be prevented from happening as we are eliminating one of the factor ( asbestos roof). It was a long waited thing for us but financially we just able to do it in July , Praise The Lord to that.  At least we are not so much worry anymore about Mesothelioma thingy towards the children.  It was not an easy task to changed the roof as during the day the temperature was quite hot and working or installing a zink roof  even hotter especially the work is being done on top where there is no shelter to it ha ha ha . It was fun at the same time as at least 6 persons  were doing it. Each zink roof is about 180 x 80 cm and we were installing about 800 pieces for the main building.  While doing it it was a rather unusual as we were so confidence with the weather to be on our side but the unusual thing was happening. While all the front part of the roof ( including the children room and our bed room’s roof were taken off ) , an unusual rain came in the middle of the day on July 20th  and the rain was pouring for about one hour. It hasn’t been any rain since end of March but it was raining on that day. From that day onwards there isn’t any more rain. It was a rare phenomena and it was rather an unfortunate thing to us to have the children room, our bed room and the children clothing’s room were so wet and messy.

from the asbestos ( left) to zink roof ( right hand side)

the unexpected rain made things wet and messy

the naughty rain made us worked all night

the messy clothing room because of the naughty  rain

a real mess

While we are having the roof opened , we are also changing all the electrical wiring to make sure that a possibility of electrical fire will not be happening to our place. This was not in the original budgeting plans but it is worth it as far as the safety issue is concerned. With the proper installation we are hoping that the wiring will last for a long time .

wiring changed with the best cable and with the correct cable size

Beside the roof  and electrical wiring we are also trying our best to finished up the new storage rooms. There storage rooms are consist of 6 new rooms and the size are 4 x 4 meters. It will be enough to store most of the items that we have plus the rice harvest. It was only left with one room that was unfinished with its tile installation. I hope that we will get the doors sent to us already . Once the doors and windows are installed we are only left with installing the ceiling . We hope that we can move all of the items into the storage room soon. It will be great if we can move all the small boys into the new dorm ( 18 of them) . So spacious and each will get a bed , a cupboard and a small side table.

the new storage room with its newly installed tiles

in front of the boy’s dorm we are making a shelter to block the heat from the sun and from the rain. It was installed properly already and we painted it in pink colour. In this picture the canopy was still on the ground .

a new shelter for the front part of the boy’s dorm

A day before I left the orphanage we did the measurements and location for the play ground. It will be great if soon we can have a play ground for the children. It will be great if we can have them doing the morning stretching when they are not attending school during the weekend. It has been fun to bring them out in the morning sun and doing the exercises. their movements are not the same and each were trying to follow closely our instructions and it was always great to see them catching up better and better each time.  The play ground will be using the beach ( sea) sand so that the sand will be clean and bright in its colour. It will be great if we can have the play ground soon. We can also use it as an assemble place where things can be conducted at a better and proper place. It is a long waited play ground to us . Praise The Lord that we can make a start for it. We have ordered the swing and the swing is ready to be picked up soon. It will be a great day if we can give the children something according what the children needs.

measuring the play ground

To add up the physical building we were also trying our best upon building the children character. This is the main part and it is an easy thing to do. So many of them and each are having different characteristic and ability to progress differently and even more difficult because each of the children are having different attitude upon seeing things about life. My wife , myself and all of our dear friends can only try our best upon directing them towards things which we think to be good based on a normal norms such as how to respect others, how to work together and how to do our best in achieving our goals. Sometime is quite easy if the children are able to follow our way of thinking but sometime is frustrating if we found them unable to follow our reasoning. It is a normal thing as they are all are still  children. On weekend days we tried to make them to be together upon doing simple tasks ( but a productive tasks) such as cleaning the garden, washing and also some sort of stretching before doing anything.

weekend activities

stretching

cleaning the garden

including our future doctor ” Gerson”  also cleaning the garden

collecting loose stones

washing for the little ones

It is mandatory to go to school but the day to day work must be done properly

It was a privilege that we were having some wonderful friends coming and stayed with us . One of them was Ms Tina Vanderpol from Vancouver , she was with us also in April ( with her dearest husband  Mike and children Justin and Linden ). She played the organ / piano for us while Mrs Janet Collins is playing with the children about the chicken song. We hope that one day some of our orphanage children can play the organ/ piano for them self.  We were so lucky too that we are having a visit by my older sister Yayuk , my older brother Senja and my nephew  Franky . It was a special occasion to have them around. Simply so much of joy were created by their visit to the orphanage.

me and my siblings

our happy time                    

below is a song created by Peggy in less than 10 minutes , its Roslin Orphanage’s song