Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Monday, 12 July 2010 12:07
These days we seem to have a steady flow of visitors and volunteers of all ages and backgrounds here on the mission. Many end up becoming addicted to the love and lifestyle that the children here can provide, often people extend their stays or come back again! Several of our volunteers make annual trips to visit the kids and often call just to chat with the ones that they consider ‘special’.
One of our volunteers celebrating her birthday with new friends and family...
One of our volunteers celebrating her birthday with new friends and family...
 
We like to encourage people who come out here to live life along with our kids, sleeping, eating, working and playing at the same level as everyone else. It can be a life-changing thing to spend a few days doing something radical and totally out of your ‘comfort-zone’. Our kids are loving, accepting, hard-working and fun loving and help to make everyone and anyone feel at home here.
 An endangered species...
 Caught on our property this lizard is an endangered species, we let it go in the nearby jungle!

Often visitors get involved with projects, building, teaching, painting, reading or just general play with the kids. There is no shortage of adventures to be had in the local area too, be it shopping, picnics, jungle walks, camping, fishing, trips up into the Himalayas... etc. Sometimes adventures are found unexpectedly, like the lizard in the picture above which one of our volunteers caught on our property. This particular type is in very low numbers and so we carefully released it in the jungle where it would not come to any harm from humans.

 

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