One Day, Six Villages

Wow, I’m exhausted and wet, we all are. We hit the road going south today and got far enough out of Kunming to find villages that are not being torn down. We went to six different villages and went to the local government building with cameras and all and asked the question, “Do you know of any poor kids in your area?” Two of the village government workers led us to two tragic stories that I’m sure will both make their way into the documentary. The map below shows where we were. Anywhere you see the word “Cun” indicates there is a village there, and we were probably there too. Tomorrow we head into the mountains for some more adventure. I’ll put up a video of one of the kids we found tomorrow. Good night or good morning wherever you are reading this from…

Roger

Hope-Mobile Has A Flat

Today was a really rainy day. We went to a village on the edge of town that was like a ghost town. Every building had been marked to be demolished and most of the residents had already moved out. We found a family with a few kids that lived inside one of the houses but they wouldn’t let us come in to talk with them. A huge rat came running out of their house and scared Irene half to death. That made for a good laugh.

Then we had a meeting and great interview with the principal of a school for kids that are not allowed to go to regular school because they have no Kunming ID Card (most 0f them are migrant workers’ kids). During his interview it started raining and basically rained us out for the rest of the day.

Oh yeah, and this morning we had a flat… (sabotage)

better days ahead…

Bring Hope, Get Dirty

Well guys, the first week of filming is done and it was great. Very hard but very good. I have tought everyone the famous English slang phrase ‘no pain, no gain’ and it seems to fit our project just fine.

We’ve seen kids whose parents reject help for them and that’s hard to watch. But we found a little girl who is 9 and she cried when she told us her story and she will come to camp and hopefully experience some fun and love that she is in great need of.

The Hope-Mobile is in need of a car wash and we are all in need of a Saturday. Thanks for reading, the adventure continues Monday.