The postphoned World Aids Day was today....

 Today we had our traditional World Aids day  gathering, which was emotional and touching. We remembered the children we lost in the last year... It are not all children who died of Aids, but we name all the children we lost and different people share about the children, we light a candle for each of them. We had 10 candles today. Not all of them died in Amecet, only three of them passed away in our home. that were all small babies. In total we lost 4 babies and one handicapped child, then 5 children died who were HIV+, they passed away at home or in the hospital. Those 5 HIV+ children were all older, most of them were teenagers. We knew them for years and it was really painful to remember them. We believe that we will see them again.....

 It was a big group, the older children were also with us. The flowers on the tables represent the life that we also celebrated.. After everybody had shared about the children, we sang together to thank God for the life we see in the children and how God has used Amecet to bring life to so many children.. We prayed together for baby Esther, who is still serious ill... .But we see encouragement....

 This is Samuel, his smile brings healing to us.. he starts to talk and he can stand, but doesn't dare to walk yet. It is a lovely little boy and you can see him getting stronger every day..(blog of Nov. 13)

And this is Emmanuel, the little boy who came two days ago, who was so terrible beaten by his own mother. Today his second eye was open and his wounds are healing. He is playing and is cheerful and happy. We can see that he has quite a strong will, so that will be interested in the future. If we tell him to go to eat, he want to play, if it is time to sleep, he wants to go outside... ( Blog of Dec. 7)