Sudanese Refugee School in Pictures

(If you want to read stories from this day, on top of looking at the pictures, click HERE.)
Love was the universal language of our time with the Sudanese refugees.

Playing games with the kids... you can see "New Sudan" written on the wall of the school.

Teaching us some of their traditional Sudanese songs... precious!

One of the teachers at the school.

Having fun with a bouncy ball.

We delivered a donated drum set to the school which was an immediate HIT!

Two of the teenage girls that didn't really want to come out of the classroom to join the festivities.

The leader of the Mercy Team leads the kids in a highly energetic sermon-ette.

Young teen girls.

Me with my two little kids (on the right) who were my favorites... the teenage girl on the left is the older sister of the little boy.

The older girls liked to braid our hair the way they braid each others'.

Teenage boys.

Teenage girls.

This picture is great because you can see the backdrop of the big building going up next to the school, but in the reflection of her sunglasses you can also see the other tall buildings going up all around their refugee camp. When the government gave this land for the refugee camp it was empty desert.

This map, or one like it, was hanging in every classroom at the school, teaching the kids where Sudan (their home country) and where Egypt was (where they are living today).

This building is under construction next to the school and is being built very un-safely. A volunteer engineer came to evaluate the property for the staff and noted that it is twice as tall as the permit allowed and was in danger of collapsing because the structure is unsound. On top of which, the principal told us that the construction workers sometimes threw materials down from the high stories onto the children in the courtyard of the school.

The boys playing in three-legged races.

This little boy asked me to paint a cross on his forehead.

Two boys balloon-ed out.

This little boy just would not smile on camera, no matter how hard we tried to brighten him up.

The great corral of girls.

Not sure why the little kids would throw signs, but they liked to do this for pictures.

Just a display of the goatie face paint that the young boys kept asking me to paint on their faces.

The courtyard at the school during the chaos of our carnival stations.

Checking out the new drum set.

The kids broke from our play day to have breakfast (1 loaf of bread, a bottle of milk, and a hard-boiled egg)... some of whom this would be their only meal for the day.

One of the classrooms full of kids waiting to come out and play at our carnival of fun.

This picture and Scripture was painted on the wall of the courtyard.

The boys hanging out the window to get a chance to blow bubbles.

Cute little boys!

Waving for the camera.