Wow! For a week now we have hosted 7 refugees from Somalia. The youngest is 15 and the oldest is 40. Life has changed so quickly for us. For them it was even harder and quicker. They have spent the last 11 months in Olaine, in a detention center for illegal refugees. This was not so much because of who they are and lack of identity papers as due to the fact that Latvia lacks experience in dealing with refugees. It came to pass that these 7 persons ended up on the street in Riga, Latvia with 12LS to their name. That is the equivalent of about 20USD between them all. They had no place to sleep and all institutions were either closed for the weekend or could not take these people in, because they lacked the proper documentation. To make a sad and appalling story shorter, we took them in. Our children took to them almost immediately and new friendships were formed. The picture shows our new friends with some of our children after performing the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood" in latvian for our children. It and they were a hit. More to follow...
