Daily Routine

In most of the cases we see, the children join the choir and they are used to having one meal a day. When they wake up in the mornings the first thing on their agenda is chores. Some even worked as house servants (child labor). Others work in the gardens the whole day and then they come home to their one meal for the day, if they are lucky. We have seen children that never attended school, all the way up to the age of 10. Once the children join the choir they are provided with three meals a day. They are also immediately put into private school to receive the education they deserve. When the children are in school, the school prepares lunch for them. (Most of these children come with a mentality of eating fast. When they spend their whole lives having one meal a day and usually sharing scarce food with a hungry family, they learn that if they eat slow, they don’t eat as much. In a lot of cases we have to talk to them and explain that it is okay to eat slow and enjoy the meals.) Most of the Orphans that come to us have either never been to school and we enroll them in school. Many of the Kids have to learn new hygiene habits when they join the choir. Some of them have never even owned a toothbrush. We go through a process of teaching them to brush their teeth, washing their hands, etc