Zions Hill's Beyond the Box is a community outreach service that pairs up young at-risk youth from Ravenswood, Tasmania, with an orphanage in Singaraja, Indonesia. The youth are mentored before going on a life changing trip for just over a week to Indonesia to meet the Singaraja orphans and to gain insight into what life is like for those less fortunate. Upon return to Tasmania the youths are mentored for a period of up to six months and taught life and employment skills.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Towards the weekend in Singaraja
Another beautiful morning greeted the team here in Lovina, yesterday, before heading off on a day of work, great food, great fun and most importantly great people. The day had alot in store including a suprise change of plans.....
The orphans were quick to appreciate the guitar donated by Zions Hill's Kids Club, playing a variety of tunes that sounded great to all of us.
The BTB team worked hard through the heat of the day to finish painting the front fence in a blue and white color scheme, that got the thumbs up from all here with Dmaker
After a hard days work, we re-grouped before dinner to discuss our options that had been put to us. The original plan had us heading back to Sanur(Denpasar) on Saturday, but the offer was made for us to stay on in Singaraja until Monday, giving us more time with the orphans, as well as allowing us to plant their garden for them. The decision was made in favour for us to stay on, much to everyone's delight.
After dinner at the orphanage the BTB team along with Jakob, Paul and Rudi from Dmaker took us all for a drive around Singaraja, something the orphans rarely do as most people don't own cars, to a new mall, where we shared ice-cream as well as giving the orphans awesome memories of bumping around in bom-bom cars in their first trip to an amusement arcade.
Jason drove fast and hard
Candyce and her partner kept us on our toes
Bek showed why we weren't hiring scooters of our own to ride in Bali with her crazy driving display.
The fun we had with the orphans last night, really helped cement our positive relationship with them, and had us all realising, how a few dollars ($5 Australian books out the whole dodgem rink) can give so much pleasure to those here in need. Judging from everyones smiles, I'd say we'll be back at the amusement arcade with the orphans before we go.....
-Posted By Scott-
3 comments:
beck
said...
Wow! Looks like you guys are all having a great time!! Thats so awesome!! :D
3 comments:
Wow! Looks like you guys are all having a great time!! Thats so awesome!! :D
Scott your photos are fantastic! It looks awesome ;) Love the pics of the bom-bom cars!! xo
heeeyyy lol! i only just read that! hahahaha! you've done a great job with the pics and captions scotty! good job! :)
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