Our New Smiley Club Room

We have waited for over 6 months to see our new Smiley Club room. Our application has been sent from desk to desk, and without permission it has been impossible to se the room. We have heard that it needs reconstruction and that it is in the basement, and today we saw it with our own eyes for the first time.

A rotten smell hits us when we step into the room. When you look up to the ceiling, you understand why it smells. “The toilet in the room upstairs is leaking” explains the lady working at the dormitory. She tells us that the room was renovated about 3 1\2 years ago, but that nothing was done with the room above it. So now there is a big whole in the ceiling, and water is leaking down and ruining the floor. Although a lot of money and time needs to be spent on the reconstruction of the ceiling, the room has a lot of potential. It is big, and has a nice location next to the playground. When we leave the dormitory some of the children hanging around in the playground ask us when the activities will start, and if we need any help to clean the room and area around. It is comments like this that make you forget the 6 months of waiting, writing letters, calls and frustration. The children are waiting for us at our new Smiley Club room, and we’ll do everything to make sure that they don’t have to wait for half a year for us.