Roslin Orphanage Blog

Things that being done not according to our will, will be a hard thing to and surely our mind will be unhappy and we will be tired physically as well mentally. In the other hand if things are being conducted with such a togetherness spirit , not only the result will be great but we will not endure the mental tiredness.

our own cleaning team cleaning the gathering place together

Pritty , a primary 2 student washing her own uniform manually

It was so funny to see Jen ( almost 2 years old) trying to sweep the floor while on the other hand is still holding the biscuit. We kind of let her do it as we want her to get the chance to have her freedom upon using the broom. After seeing the older one doing it every day , Jen was tempted to copy it without any instruction from others. We really value her initiative . As on the team cleaning picture , we are also happy to see them doing it without any unhappiness feeling. The spirit of togetherness is very important to keep and even to improve it. By doing so the cleaning matter and for every thing else will be quite easily conducted . The main thing to tell our self ( them) is how can we keep this togetherness spirit. To be self sufficient on every thing is very important and it has been the orphanage’s goal since in the very beginning. For Pritty , we are so happy since she was 4 year old , she has been able to help her younger “bro and sis” in the form of changing clothes, spooning the meals and many other things. Pritty has been washing her own uniform right after the lunch period. It is great to see practicing her awareness to make sure that she will be wearing a clean clothes every day by washing her own uniform timely. These time is ok on drying clothes because of plentiful sun shine but during the rainy months the Sun light will be much less and the air will be so damped thus quite difficult to dry up the laundry. The rainy season will be form 2nd week of November till February. So even though she does not need to ash it every day ( she has few uniforms) but seeing her doing it as to make her self a back up is really some thing that I can also learn from what she has been doing.

Many things can be done in the spirit of togetherness at the orphanage. For example we do not need to worry when the older orphans are around , they will be playing or making up a quality time with the little ones. It has been great to see them interacting and filling up the time with games and even in the form of assisting home works. There are sadness too if we are seeing that the older orphans were unable to answer the questions from the little ones . This is a frequent case if the subject is English ( because the older one are also very weak on this subject ha ha ha ). This is a good time for us to come in and assisting them. This is the very important factor that the people in this place is not able to make a big progress. By lagging in English language it will be hard to be able to progress further . It will be hard to make a break through else where. By having a reasonably a good English language knowledge , we will be able to explore more globally. One day we are hoping that we will be able to provide the orphanage with a person or some persons who is/are willing to spend time at the orphanage to teach the orphanage children as well as the village children. So far only my father in law which has been doing it beside our self but Cornelis Lakusa ( my father in law) is currently in Singapore for his medical matter.