"It always seems impossible until it's done."

Nelson Mandela has it right.

It was our last day with the children today and it was very hard to say goodbye. Not so much for the kids I don't think because they are used to volunteers coming and going, but for us it was tough. Without even knowing it these children have changed us forever. As I laid in bed last night I tried to think of every child I've been with through these 3 weeks. Their faces came easily to me. The looks we got when we would come onto the ward with toys, the way they would laugh at the littlest thing we would do, the way they would hold your hand just to know you're there when they weren't feeling good and had no one else with them, that will be clear in my memories forever.

Although we were not able to take pictures within the hospital,
the faces and memories will never fade from my mind.

As every one of us received a hug from the head of the Friends of the Red Cross volunteer program today, who had tears in her eyes, I realized just how much of a difference three weeks can make in anybody's life. And how much good there really is in the world.