The best thing I've ever done!

My weekly working life:

Work in a preschool from 8:00am - 12:00pm.
The children are the cutest, loveliest and cheekiest children I have ever met! I teach them basic English, so we learn colours, letters, numbers, shapes etc... The rest of the time is spent singing, dancing, playing and reading stories. Colouring and crafts they also love and they generally make a mess with paint, glitter glue and anything they can get their mischievous hands on!
Preschool work is brilliant fun, very challenging but tremendously rewarding. You will never feel more loved than you do when you have 60 small children all fighting each other just to get a Hi5 or a hug!

My soup kitchen work is also fantastic - it is much more emotionally challenging than the preschool work because the children you are feeding have nothing in the whole world. Most of them are orphaned and they care for younger brothers and sisters, uneducated and poor they have slim chances of ever bettering themselves.
Handing out the food is something that I enjoy and dislike at the same time; hard to understand but it does make sense! While I feel good for providing these children with a stable meal, I also feel bad when I see them push and shove and fight while we are serving... always desperate to grab anything they can. Here are children who are all as starving as each other, but they are so desperate they will push tiny toddlers out from their way just to get some leftovers. It is heartbreaking.
However they are really brilliant children; I love playing with them after we have served the food, when you look at them all together they look like such a sorry group. But when you begin to play sports, games and sing songs they really come out of themselves and they can be pictures of pure joy despite everything else. They are amazing.

I love Project Trust for giving me this opportunity, and I love my program so much! I may never want to leave Swaziland...
If you ever get a chance to do something like this jump at it, grab it with both hands, and never let go.