By Carrie Arcos
The team from Mosaic spent a day at the Avila Orphanage (supported by Breath of Heaven donors), interviewing and photographing the children to learn their stories. They took the next day to follow-up with some of them by going to the neighborhoods where they had lived before. One member of that team wrote the following article as she reflected on that experience.

Her eyes were not on me but on her daughter who played in the small dusty yard, which extended from the winding dirt road in front of the home. Loveness held a small orange ball in her hand and threw it high into the air.

“Wouldn’t you be sad to see your daughters leave?” I asked the mother.

“Sad?” She said the word as if it were foreign to her, continuing to watch her daughter. “There is no such thing as sadness,” she simply responded.