Hope for Kids Update

Recently Hope for Kids has been arriving at the hospital to find that the kids can’t come out of the ward that day. While this hasn’t happened every time, it is more common now then before. While we do initially come to interact with the children, this is a good opportunity for us to help out in other ways. The past few times this has happened we have cleaned the books and the shelves they are on, organized the books by Sinhalese, Tamil, and English, as well as by picture book or text. Additionally we have organized the arts and crafts materials and areas, cleaned the general rooms, swept and mopped. While this is not initially what we intend to do when we head to the hospital, it still benefits the children, and the group and myself work together to get the cleaning finished.