Our time at the orphanage

The students spent 5 days working with Save the Children on some projects in a village about 100km outside Bishkek. We stayed in the school building because most of the 'orphans' had gone home. In the old Soviet Union it was normal for families to leave their children in orphanages when they went to work away. Save the Children spend all their time trying to convince communities that this isn't a good idea and trying to help the orphanages that still exist.

We helped renovate a dining area and kitchen, we cleared a park, painted trees, and some of the students went into Bishkek and bought loads of books and sports equipment for the orphanage.

On the last day they insisted on taking us up into the mountains for a glorious picnic.