Orphanage: Washing Dishes, Laundry

Jessibel and Cyril Washing Dishes

Jessibel and Cyril Washing Dishes

Everyone uses well water from an outside pump to cook and wash dishes. The boys also use the pump to fill up their bathing buckets and brush their teeth, and all of the kids use it to wash their laundry. (Matthew, Lee, and I take our laundry up the street to have it washed and dried in machines for a few pesos, but the kids just have too much laundry to be able to do that for everyone.) Water that comes from the ground is pretty clean, but we still don’t drink it directly.

Cyril and Jessalyn

Boys and girls alternate washing the dishes, sweeping the floors, and cleaning the counters. Everyone puts their dishes into a bucket of water, and whoever is washing that day transfers the dishes to a bucket of soapy water. Then the dishes are put into a bucket of rinse water, rinsed again under the pump, and stacked in the dish drainer to dry.

washing dishes

washing dishes

washing dishes

girls cleaning

Jeralyn, Rose Marie, Judy Ann Cleaning

Sorting Dishes

Sorting Dishes

Judy Ann Pumping Water

Judy Ann Pumping Water

Written by

I am a college student studying English and Communications, and since I was very young I have felt that God may be calling me to take hold of the education my loving family has provided for me, the truths God has shown me, and the freedoms America has given me to craft them into something that will bring tangible relief to the world’s many impoverished citizens and tell them about Christ.

I met Matthew and Lee Dwinells while volunteering with my church at Rancho 3M in Mexico and have followed their journey to the Philippines while praying that I might find some way to help them. After a few failed attempts to obtain grants, my friends and family were very generous and donated money so that I could go serve at the orphanage. I received encouragement and help from various professors, and Dr. G very kindly created this website for me to update while I am there.

I am excited to see how God blesses the faith and support of the many people who have helped launch my trip. I pray that even just a few people will gain a better understanding of life in the Philippines and that through this endeavor the children at the orphanage will grow physically and spiritually. My upcoming adventure is a great unknown to me, but I’m sure God will use it for good.

“For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing,”
Deuteronomy 10: 17-18.