You have stories of people donating bags full of toys that the orphanage director then goes and gives to his own kids, or sells, or locks in a closet, so that the next group of volunteers will donate bags of toys.
Because if they see kids playing with tons of toys, they won't bring toys.
If they see kids sleeping on a good bed with a good mattress, they won't donate money for better beds and better mattresses.
We did not eat our meals with the children in the orphanage.
We ate separately, which was a rule at that orphanage.
It was so we wouldn't know what they were eating.
My typical breakfast at the orphanage would include fresh fruit juice, hard-boiled eggs, toast, jams, butter.
The children were most often having beans and rice that they cooked themselves.
