Many will know that the 3Cs are one of the charities closely involved with the project to move children from the orphanage into smaller, family units known as Love Homes.
Last week, two of our visitors ( who I won't name for obvious reasons) were young girls who had spent most of their lives in the care system and were still under the care of legal guardians. Their story is a sad tale where they have become victims of circumstances that were inflicted on them as very young children.
One day we were sat around the pool and the girls were keen to ask about the lives of children in care here in Turkey, I told them about the whole range of projects supported by the 3Cs including the love homes. They didn't comment very much and later carried on with their swim and I gave no further thought to our conversation until the night they were leaving.
Just before their airport transfer arrived, the youngest girl who is 12 came over to me and handed me a little plastic bag which contained money, I was puzzled until she said "we have saved this from our holiday spends to help those children going into the love homes"
It was such a simple but touching moment, I hardly knew what to say but swallowed heavily and thanked both of them for such a nice gesture. I couldn't even bring myself to count the small collection of notes and coins after they had left and handed over the bag to Chrissie the following day. I've just heard that they have donated more than 60 lira which will be used exactly how they specified.
