Thank you for Fr. Marc and Mrs. B. Help us to be good boys. And thank you very much for our friends in the United States who send us staff. After dinner, the boys with homework gather around the two lanterns, a dozen boys at each small source of light. Other kids cluster in the courtyard to list to music coming from the church next door.
Big kids hoist little ones up to peek inside the windows.
Marc, the boys dance and sing in the courtyard. Smiles and laughter are everywhere. A full moon shines down on the kids, casting large shadows on the courtyard walls. As his first day at Hope House concludes, Wilbert is shown his bed. Each boy has his own bed but they choose to push all of them together.