Home of Hope 2014 Summer Camp

Home of Hope had another amazing summer camp at Spille Beach for a week in July 2014. Twenty children from the orphanage and the local Roma community attended as well as the staff and their families.  This is a great group shot as we were watching the sun go down.

The camp was paid for by the hard work and committment of 5 young ladies from Holland: Eveline, Heleen, Floor, Mandy, and Imke. It fills my heart with hope when I see such great youth of their age involved in volunteer work; youth that want to make a difference in this world; youth that have sacrificed their time, money, and worldly conveniences to make other's happy; youth that care deeply about the world around them.

On one of the days, Alban and I walked with the girls to General Beach, about 1 1/2 hours each way. It is a beautiful beach. We had time to get to know the girls really well and how they all came together to make this camp possible. The weather was perfect, and we had a really nice lunch together before walking back and joining the kids again for beach activities.

I don't need many words to describe the happy faces in the photos below. The pictures speak for themselves. Lots of smiles, lots of laughs, lots of fun!

More photos to come!!!

And here they are, finally!

And that is how you build a fire on the final day!!