This lock down has been quite an experience for our church homes. Some facilities constructed above ground fishponds, lined them with plastic, and are filling them with buckets hauled from the trickle that used to be a river. Other homes are doing special gardens or beginning some new livestock projects like frog farming. In Phnom Penh, where the lockdown is more strictly enforced, we have 60 kids from two homes staying in our Training Center. Without being able to leave the property and with no TV or computer linkage, Shanon Hladek has helped our Cambodian staff keep all of the kids busy for the past 6 weeks. Activities have included learning how to dye clothing, playing new games, cooking, studying the Bible, praying, planting gardens and building various gadgets.

One real bright spot is seeing Dany, the girl with her hip crushed from the kick of her drunken stepfather almost 15 years ago, recover from the surgery done in late November last year to become one of the most aggressive athletes at the center. She is so grateful for what the surgeon did for her she now wants to become a doctor. (Video)