Namumu is home to 80 children, 40 boys and 40 girls, ages 5 to 18, most of whom have lost parents to AIDS. They were chosen to enter the orphanage from right out of the surrounding villages. The orphanage directors simply went around to neighboring villages, asked the village leaders where they could find the neediest children, and brought them in to stay at Namumu.
But put away your tissues, folks, these kids are doing just fine. At Namumu they live in a dormitory and receive food, clothes, education and health care. Not a bad deal at all. Here are a few pictures that I snapped this past summer (don't forget your trash cans):
Rascally boys playing in a sand pit. The kid doing the Karate Kid Crane's name is Gift. Pretty much one in four boys in Zambia are named Gift. Fact.
Study Study Study.
Those Namumu girls are hair-braiding fools, I'll tell you what. Gotta stay fly.
The children are loved and taken care of. What a nice place to grow up, huh?
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