Amor del Nino

The Petra work team spent the past week painting and cleaning at the Amor del Nino orphanage. We visited the orphanage yesterday afternoon and then joined the team for supper in the evening.


The orphanage is built on a hill, so it was difficult to get a good picture. Amor del Nino has about 50 children, most between 0 - 6 years of age.

Some of the volunteers and older children were playing on the patio.

One of the team's projects was to construct these custom made cribs, eight tiny little beds, four on top and four on the bottom. These, of course, are for the tiniest babies.

Cribs, cribs everywhere! This orphanage has lots of babies. Currently they have 22 babies under one year old.

I'm holding the smallest baby, although not the youngest. She was born prematurely and was just a tiny little bundle.

Emily's got a chunky little boy.

Two 'gorditos' (little fatties). These were the two oldest babies in this room. Sadly, two staff members care for 13 babies. All of the bottles get propped until the children are old enough to hold their own. As with all of the orphanages ORI supports, resources are limited, so they do the best they can.

We had supper with the team at My Father's House, the guest house where the group is staying. Ben and Charlie had time for a game of pool before we ate.