One of many home visits

While in Benin, I was able to visit some of our sponsored orphan's homes.  Needless to say, at times it was very overwhelming.  The video below was made after visiting Issiaka who is 9 years old.  He is sponsored by Vic Kids, a group of 1st-5th graders at Victory World Church.  I told him that his sponsors were around his age, (some older and some younger) that they all had his picture at their homes and that they loved and cared about him very much.  You could see on his face that he understood how awesome that was!  Issiaka wanted to send a message with us for his sponsors.  His head was bowed down and as he began to talk, saying, "thank you, thank you...you are now my friends."  Tears started coming down his sweet, little face.  As he stood there, wiping his tears off I picked him up and held him.  He could not stop crying.  Our interpreter was talking to him and told us that they were tears of joy.  It meant so much to him that kids in the states cared about him all the way in Benin...