Slideshow « Char Fasson Children's Fund

Slideshow

We’ve put together this slideshow to give you a glimpse into the lives of the children at the Char Fasson Orphanage.

Click any of the thumbnails below to start the show, then use the “right” and “left” arrow buttons on your keyboard to move forward and backward through it.

This well is the only source of clean water for drinking and washing dishes.

Without the orphanage the boys would live like these destitute village children. The distended abdomens are an indication of parasites.

The boys work hard to prepare the fields for planting.

Preparing the land for cultivation by pulling the grass by hand is long and tedious labor.

This is one of the five latrines used by the boys. Sanitation can be a problem.

Inefficient and primitive, one of the boys prepares food on the earthen stove.

Minimally stocked, the food storage room illustrates the limited resources.

These boys are preparing a meager ration of potatoes for a meal.

This photo shows Lesley with some of the boys.

A basket of cooked rice is waiting to be served at a meal.

Meal preparation takes place in the cooking hut.

The boys study in their sparsely furnished classroom.

Clothing is washed by hand in the pond.

The orphanage director and accountant are working at their desks.

Bath time takes place at the pond.

The boys and staff are smiling for the photographer.

Rabbi tends one of the cows.

Even in the midst of poverty and struggle, the children find reasons to smile.

Meal time in the dining room is also a time for socialization.

The boys study on their sleeping cots. The metal boxes behind them hold each boys accumulation of worldly goods. Their cloths hang on a wire above them.

Cricket is a popular pastime with the boys.

The boys are playing an invented game on the orphanage grounds.

Some of the planted fields are near the condemned building.

The boys frequently eat by lantern light. The electricity in Char Fasson is unreliable and generally goes off from 5:30 pm until 10:00 pm.