For the past couple of days, Ben (dressed up as Santa Clause) and I have been going around to different places around the city to hand out candy to kids.

Compassion runs a program at a youth center near our house for more than 200 kids every Thursday. We came at the end of the program, and the kids just went crazy.










All throughout the city, there are kids who beg on the streets. The ones who are sent to do this by Isl. leaders collect money/food in red tomato paste cans. There are a few that hang out at this one corner in our neighbourhood, so we stopped here as well.










The day after, we went to a primary school where our friend Magdalena teaches. These kids were great. They kept singing thank-you songs the whole time we were there. Something interesting that I noticed was that some of the kids were chewing through the wrappers of the candies (we obviously stopped them when we saw what was happening). I'm still not sure if it's because they don't usually get much candy or if it's just because their parents always unwrapped it for them. but wow, just imagine a childhood without candy!