(Excerpt from a blog comment0

What they [orphans] care about is:

• Knowing that someone, somewhere in the world CARES that they are ALIVE.
• Someone from 5,000 miles away would travel all that way just to BE with them.
• Someone to greet them with a SMILE and be HAPPY to see them…every time.
• Hug them.
• Share a an ice cream with them.
• Let them wear your favorite sunglasses and not get bent out of shape because they broke them.
• Twirl them around on a camp disco floor.
• Tell them how pretty or handsome they are.
• Walk around camp so late that moon sets and stay up long enough to watch the sun rise.
• Flip them 50 million times in the Black Sea surf until your arms feel like they’ll fall off.
• Laugh with them until your head falls off.
• Cry with them until your eyes fall out
• Squeeze them so tight and choling back tears when you say “paka” (goodbye).

[Sigh] What they care about is that someone would just say “Ya lublu tebia” (I love you) without a hitch; without condition.

THAT is what they care about.