I will unfortunately have to say that they didnt make much of a good first impression. I am in a bit of a chock and when we left I was about to cry! How can people treat children like this. These children have lived lifes that have caused them more disabilities than the ones they where born with from the start. Many of them has become blind because of lack of nutrition, others are stunted in growth due to the same reason. All of the children at Dya Dan has some sort of physical handicap as well as a mental handicap. There are children from the age of 6 up to 19 at the moment and all of them are just wonderful. I just met them and I can alredy tell that they have all got talent. There is one of the boys who is such a good singer. Annother one of the boys is so caring, he cant talk at all but as soon as another child gets upset he is there to comfort them.

The first thing we did in the morning was to do the laundry. All volonteers was standing there while the sisters and the mazis (that is what they call the permanent staff there) was giving the boys showers. And it was so painful to watch. They where so hard on them, many of the children where screaming. The mazis didnt show the boys any respect at all, they shampooed them as if they where a rug that needed to be deep cleaned. The children they had shampoo everywhere. They left the boys all wet and naked with soap all over their face to get another one and to give them the same treatment. When they had a bunch of boys covered in soap from head to toe, then they sarted to rinse of the soap, all at once. They usd cold water and the boys are where screaming.

When they brushed the teeth they put a stick under the chin and they pulled their mouth opened, ofcourse the boys where screaming, I would have screamed too.

And how they fed the boys, I can't described how it looked. they where just pushing spoonful into their mouths and most of the children they didn't chew at all, they just swallowed. Why don't they show theese children respect? I just don't get it.

As I said, im in chok. I hope tommorow will be a better day. Their must be something good that they do!