Thanks to your generosity, we just purchased 70 new mattresses in Kabul for the orphans in Bamyan who currently sleep on rough wool blankets. And thanks to my pilot friends here at Blackwater Aviation, these mattresses are being flown in as I can get them on planes. It is amazing how much room one can still find on a "full" flight, if it is for a good cause. We will soon post Pics of gleefully soporific children and the orphanage's new solar electric system. For now, here is Meredith and I on the Bagram flight line getting ready to load mattresses on a flight to Bamyan.
UPDATE 12/6/09: All of the mattresses have been delivered. Note that the children are wearing warm winter clothes,which some of you will probably recognize as from your own children. There is no central heat in the orphanage and it is pretty cold in Bamyan. They have about 6 inches of snow on the ground there right now. But at least the children have, what is for most of them, their first mattresses ever. The blankets were donated by folks in New Zealand.
UPDATE 12/6/09: All of the mattresses have been delivered. Note that the children are wearing warm winter clothes,which some of you will probably recognize as from your own children. There is no central heat in the orphanage and it is pretty cold in Bamyan. They have about 6 inches of snow on the ground there right now. But at least the children have, what is for most of them, their first mattresses ever. The blankets were donated by folks in New Zealand.
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