Thursday, 10th of September 2009.

Today our aim was to delivery aid to the local Vidin Hospital, which was 15 minute walk and 4 lads went to go pick there wagons up as they had the aid for this hospital.

We got to the hospital and it looked like a block of run down apartments from the outside, the hospital had been built in 1942 and had not been updated since then.

The wagons then arrive and we started to unload the cargo, mainly medical item such has incubators and stretchers etc. The incubator had only been in for a short time before I little was place into it.

That goes to show how they needed it, I saw they current incubator and it like some thing from the Ark.

We then finished up there before walking back to the hotel, from here a minibus was waiting to take my self and Amanda to pick up our wagon, the next stop the mental disabled Orphanage in KUla which was 200KM.

It took two hours to get to the orphanage, straight away we started unloading, and we all had a system of people chain which was very efficient.

The facility was not that bad needed some items sorting but OK, I meet some of the children and it was sad to see them not wanted but they were happy soles.

We then were asked to visit the second orphanage across town. As soon as you walked through the door I was hit by an indescribable smell, I then joined everyone in the hall with the children I can't explain what I saw, as they say a picture says 1000 words and how These children were living and knowing the fact that they had no one to care for them.  there was one child lying in the middle of the hall, lifeless, no movement. I found out that his mother had raised him to 12 years of age then decided to go off to live in Florida and leave him, he was now 15. How can she live with herself that's all I can say?

I had to leave I couldn't fight the choke in the through any longer, a big guy like me getting upset that shows you what is going on in reality with these children. Everyone was upset with what we had seen.

I now have to live with these memories which still upset me when thinking about it.