The path to the care center/orphanage winds uphill between countless buildings in various stages of decay.

For four years Simon has responded to the crushing poverty in the Delandi slums of Blantyre. His students are orphans, ages 1-8.

His school is five rooms including a tiny kitchen. Square footage is less than 800 feet. Even so he and five teacher/caregivers educate up to 100 children at a time.

Although they don’t get breakfast, they get two ‘meals’ a day…if you can count a ground corn paste called sima as a meal. Still it fills their empty stomachs.

Somewhere in the last 18 hours of flights I asked myself why I keep doing this.

The kids I saw in Delandi today are a huge part of the reason. We can’t make life better for all of them. But we sure can for some!