What happend last week in Zim???

This week we have mainly been in the office looking over the coming events at Willow Park and prioritising all the things that need to be done in getting the park into a more reasonable state of affairs. The main thing to get cracking on at the moment is the dining hall … all the walls are stained with mold and out of the 30 odd chairs that are in the hall about half of them actually resemble a proper working chair; all the others have no backs, not bottoms, wonky legs etc… and the tables are all chipped and looking very old and run down. We are hoping to get out again to Willow Park again this week to choose a new colour and organise the grounds men to repaint the dining hall. In reference to new dining chairs and tables, that is another story. I went to price new tables and chairs the other day and to purchase 10 tables and 60 chairs it will cost around $2,000 USD, and considering the price per person per night works out to be around $0.19 USD, it will take a lot of saving … there just has to be a cheaper way.

(Jodi’s Turn) Most of my week this week has been spent in the office with Andrew trying to work out pricing structures for Willow Park. I did manage to get out to the abandoned babies house. The way that the house has been set up is fantastic for the children with very happy and cheerful cartoons on the walls of the playroom. I spent a few hours there playing with the two little boys; they are both three years old. They were quite well behaved; they just loved having someone play with them. I barely made it in the front door when I heard “who are you? Let’s play!” I was saddened to see that the two boys were in one room on their own & the two baby girls (about 6months old) sitting in rockers were in another room on their own, while the four women in the house just sat around. After a bit of colouring in, reading & an adventure outside exploring the yard we came back inside only to discover the babies were still sitting in the same spot. I took the boys into play with the babies & the girls had a great time just watching the boys play. I noticed very quickly that for six months old these girls did not reach for anything you put in front of them, let alone put stuff straight in their mouths. It is a better environment for them to be in than the hospital, but they are still not getting the attention given to them that they need.