As some may know I love my grannie activities (and my grannie)... so I thought I would attach some photos of some grannie activities going on at the orphanage...
Sadie do you remember teaching Christy and I to make origami cranes and 12 pointed stars on those cold winter days in the motherland? I can still make both... Christy can you?!! I only did the cranes with the kids... Making the cranes was interesting a couple of the kids got it instantly, but there was one girl in particular, she is 13, and seriously she was not able to fold the paper in half, despite me showing it to her repeatedly, and then helping her very closely... At a guess I think this is some sort of developmental brain damage probably caused by malnutrition when she was small... nutrition is soooo important, and yet so many kids here aren't lucky enough to have access to it... perhaps their parents are too poor... perhaps their mother doesn't know what is good nutrition... perhaps they are a girl and are not valued enough to waste too many precious food resources on...
Sadie do you remember teaching Christy and I to make origami cranes and 12 pointed stars on those cold winter days in the motherland? I can still make both... Christy can you?!! I only did the cranes with the kids... Making the cranes was interesting a couple of the kids got it instantly, but there was one girl in particular, she is 13, and seriously she was not able to fold the paper in half, despite me showing it to her repeatedly, and then helping her very closely... At a guess I think this is some sort of developmental brain damage probably caused by malnutrition when she was small... nutrition is soooo important, and yet so many kids here aren't lucky enough to have access to it... perhaps their parents are too poor... perhaps their mother doesn't know what is good nutrition... perhaps they are a girl and are not valued enough to waste too many precious food resources on...
1st folds
With some cranes... we made LOTS
They wanted to string the cranes up - see left hand side (I have this sort of thing in my house)
Knitting socks for the winter... I am not their teacher fortunately
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