Ashley Wagner

This past week has been full of celebration…much of it happening quietly behind the scenes in our kitchen and on the farm. Each month we carefully sit down and calculate our food budget. Our goal has always been simple but meaningful: to provide healthy, delicious meals for the children and staff while also being wise stewards of the resources we have. We try to stretch every dollar, reduce what we need to purchase, and make the most of everything our farm can provide. Anyone who has spent...

This past Saturday was different, and you could feel the excitement growing at the Girl’s home as the day grew closer. Saturday was the day that our oldest girls would be returning to their village for the first time in almost two years. As we prepared to go, my mind couldn’t help but go back to the time when we first met these children and what a difference there is in each of them now. Yes, they are taller and healthier, but the difference is more than that. It is seeing the smile actually...

Imagine a world where children find school breaks unreasonable and the lack of assigned homework to be, well…to put it simply…unfair. You may laugh and think that sounds like a joke. That surely these children come from a strange land. What child begs to do school over Christmas break? Or what children will come to their teacher and complain because they noticed that their fellow classmates were being allowed to work on paper after school and they were not? Yes. This is strange indeed....