Day 6 – Huu Lung and Chi Lang

Today we went to Huu Lung district, about 1 ½ hours from Lang Son, and then to Chi Lang District. We assembled wheelchairs again for group distribution in the morning and in the afternoon. We also visited some homes that had previously been given wheelchairs. We do one or two home revisit every day to see how the recipients are doing. I really enjoyed our revisit with a 15 year old boy today. He was nervous at first but really warmed up as he talked, and he had that playful smile of a boy who likes to play. Even though he is in a wheelchair he plays hard with his friends and has fun. We gave him a football, a small bounce ball and a Frisbee. Jim, one of the guys in our group, showed him how to throw the football. His face lit up as he engaged each of us in throwing the football. It was great to see how happy he was. He took us up the road a little way to show us the suspension foot bridge near his house. He gets everywhere in his wheelchair and he uses it so much and plays so hard that he’s practically worn it out in just 10 months. They told us it’s the fifth wheelchair he’s had. I loved to see him play and enjoy his childhood like young boys should. He stopped going to school after 5^th grade because school was tough for him. He didn’t go to school until he was 9 and it’s hard for him to catch up. But he says he wants to go back because he wants to learn information technology.