Papua New Guinea Trip 2

Well, I guess its time I wrote about my second trip to Papua New Guinea.

My youth group had decided that for this years camp, we would go over to Papua New Guinea to help run a camp for disadvantaged kids. We would go for 10 days and we would also help at the school being teachers and performing little drama's for them. We required over $3000 to get us all over there, for sporting equipment, Christmas presents and other school supplies. This required alot of fundraising. 

Over several weeks of fundraising every weekend at our church by making coffee, selling cakes we had made at youth group the night before and the generosity of strangers helped us get closer to our $3000 target. Still, we didn't have enough so we organised with the local McDonald's that on one Monday night, our whole youth team would go over to the McDonald's and serve behind the counters for free, they said that whatever money that came through our registers, our youth group and our mission would get 10%. It was really nice of them to get involved.

We needed only a few hundred dollars, so I started talking with the school to see what they could do for us in the way of funding, they agreed that at the upcoming talent show, they would have  a gold coin donation entry and all the money raised from this would come towards our trip. Through this and the kind donations from the people at my school, we reached our goal. 

With this money we went to the local sports store - Rebel Sport and they were amazing and gave us heaps of free footballs, caps and other sporting equipment along with massive discounts on the other equipment we bought. 

A few weeks later we were on our way, 6 of us youth making a team were in Port Moresby. This was really exciting for me to be able to see everybody again, but it was everyone else's first time. Over the first few day's we were at the camp and we got to hand out with all the kids again, its always amazing hearing their stories and seeing what were doing for them changed their lives. 

We got to give them hugs and show them love, some of them don't have families and some live with no roof over their heads. We may not have done alot for them in our eyes, but we made a big difference in their eyes which makes it all worthwhile :)

This is a photo with some of the kids, im the one in the red shirt :) 

-Natalia