for making the world,
a kinder and safer place.
Every child,
is ours to care for and protect.
Cheers to you from South Africa’s precious future~
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May Allah protect them <3
<3 <3
Absolutely agree.
Thank you!
Great shots and agree completely! 🙂
So glad and they thank you!
They look so full of happiness and joy.
Leslie
Yes! Images we often don’t see from Africa!
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Back at you x 2!
Simple and yet poignant, and to the heart of our future…
Mil grazi. We need to do a better job of caring for our world and each other~
Indeed…there seems to be a loss of individual attention to the concept of the greater good.
Yes. I never really understood how some parents can care only for their own children, when all children are our gift and our responibility, and we only get one chance in life to do right by them!
Yes that is so true<3
Little children start out so full of joy and hope. I want them to be able to hold on to that~
That is a beautiful thought. I wish for this too<3 We all have an inner child as well that we can breathe some precious life into.
Very much so, when we care for children, we also care for the child who is still in us!
¡Qué sonrisas! Me encanta la naturalidad con que se manifiestan los niños. Y los de las dos primeras fotos parecen muy traviesos y que se están preparando para alguna travesura. Preciosas fotos. 🙂
Gracias mi amiga!
No son llenos de la esperanza y la alegría! Quiero ser capaz de aferrarse a que durante tanto tiempo como sea posible ~
Beautiful.. Children are our hope dreams and future anywhere in the world. 🙂
They are! <3
Look at their darling faces! <3
Pure, innocent beauty!
Cindy, these images are beautiful and love your kind thought 🙂 I agree they are ours to care and protect 🙂
So glad you do Indah and thank you too my friend!
Oh Cindy the kids you’ve photographed look so happy and innocent.Thank you. 🙂
Thank you Ranu for seeing them as I did! <3
All of them deserve to be Happy!
They do! They deserve a safe world~
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Precious pictures of these kids. So nice to see their happy faces. 🙂 Are you on a mission trip there?
No just traveling, and learning and you are right, there is nothing better to see than happy, well cared for children!
These are beautiful, precious photos, Cindy! Love their happy faces. 🙂
It is so marvelous to hang out with happy children!
Made me smile… 🙂 Thank you for the happy post, Cindy!
You deserve many happy things Amy~ <3
Always great to see happy children. Nothing worse than don’t help them to enjoy their childhood. Thanks, Cindy.
I agree with you 200%!
Children are so vulnerable and all we want for them is to have a bright future. Clean drinking water, health care, education and a safe place to live. These kids represent those I worked with in Haiti and Tanzania. What lovely faces you captured, Cindy. I love the school shots. They love the attention. 😊
Everyone of them was a potential movie star in my eyes! What natural hams. Everything I did, they imitated perfectly. It was hilarious and they certainly thought so too! And yes, if we don’t take care of our children, we are a failed mammalian species. They are the most important of all!
What delightful faces.
Aren’t they wonderful. They were having a happy day!
Lovely images. Hope you are enjoying my country.
Your country rocks my socks off! I am in love with it~
Well then I am glad! Hope you can experience Cape Town too.
I wish we could, but there was too much to squeeze into three weeks!
So beautiful and a heartfelt wish.
The beauty of children everywhere!
Beautiful images, beautiful children!
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Just AWESOME! Love this!
Awwwwww, so glad!
What gorgeous children! I love the joy, the mischief, the wonder that children so freely express. Lovely pictures, Cindy!
I love children. Their honesty, their wonder, their interest in everything. These are the faces of innocence. I am so glad they spoke to you!
Amen to all that Cindy
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Wow! That must have been a long flight there… What is winter like there?
Yes two eleven hour flights!
Winter is awesome. The mosquitos aren’t a problem, there is little rain, so the animals congregate by water holes, and the brush is less thick so photography is easier
Please take a picture of lions:)
Gosh, so cute! Love the sassy stance of the girl in the first photo, 3rd from left – looks like nothing would stop her! 😉
Yes, and what about the twins! They killed me…….
As my niece says, “Too stinkin’ cute!” 😉
Cindy, you are so undeniably on point with this post. What are our children but our most important and most valuable treasures…, our legacy. The world needs to safeguard, educate, and protect them with more than passing intent. Thanks for sharing this post, Cuz. It’s an important one !
Hugs…!!!!!
Of course we are in complete accord on this. That is why we are cousins! <3 <3
Well said.
Thank you John~
Well captured! They are so joyful and I completely agreed.
So glad my friend & cheers~
Oh my goodness, Cindy! I absolutely love the children’s joyful dancing and looking at the camera, too. You had a wonderful time with them, I am so sure. Thanks for blessing us all with this special message and reminder. We are caregivers of the world, for we wish children to be taken care of and protected. (May I say, “Amen to that, sister!”)
Yes you may! Thank you and Amen back to you sister~ <3
Wonderful!!!
They are our hearts~
Have safe trips, Cindy! 🙂
Thank you my friend and take care of San Diego for me!
Thanks so much, Cindy! Cheers to you and to our city! 🙂
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Thank you so much for sharing those precious photos Cindy!
Thank you more for appreciating the children. I keep thinking how happy they would be if they knew how many people love them~
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Look at all those beautiful faces…. joy in movement.
Yes! Lovely aren’t they!
I am beside myself with joy and overwhelmed with the love that you captured in this post! All my best to all these sweet children and those who love them <3
Awwwww, you shined the power of your kindness and compassion right back at me. Thank you~ <3
Aww….they have the most beautiful smiles! \(*‿*)/
Don’t they, they charmed the heck out of me~
Beautiful faces and personalities. Precious children. Thanks for this, Cindy.
Thank you for appreciating them! <3
Look at the sass on those precious faces! How wonderful!
You have no idea how much fun I had with these kids. They imitated everything I did and were such total hams!
Delightful post, Cindy! Children are the future and we need to ensure they can thrive, everywhere. This too brings back great memories. Thank you!
I can well imagine the memories Amy and of course agree with everything you are saying my friend~
Looks like they’re having a lot of fun.
I would say so, and so was I! 😉
simply beautiful!
Beautiful portraits and sentiment, Cindy.
Merci beaucoup!
Yes. Beautiful photos Cindy.
Alison <3
Where are you now Alison?
Back housesitting in Vancouver. Sweden in July, Aug back in Van, Sept and Oct in Turkey, Jordan and Egypt – can’t wait!
Woo Hoo! You’re still going girl!! Good for you~
It is a new way to see this matter. It is interesting as well. http://www.bellofpeace.org
The happy faces of children are heartwarming. Thanks for sharing the photos and the sentiment.
Thank you more for appreciating them!
I agree all children are precious and need to be looked after by not only parents but by also all of us trying to create a better future for them.
Yes, it is an important mandate and opportunity for every adult human being, and we only have one life to do it in~
Indeed and so little time to ensure we have a healthy planet for the next generation too. Not on much wifi but will look up where you have travelled to soon!
Thank you my friend and be well! <3
We found the people of South Africa to be very welcoming and gracious, in whatever circumstances we met them. And, for all the fear of crime, with razor wire atop so many fences and walls, we never felt in danger… well, except for when the lion wacked it tall against the side of the van, or the rhino, which could have pushed us into a ditch came within a few feet… but those were different interactions. 🙂
Oscar
Yes, the park itself feels quite safe to me. I think it depends a lot on where you are. We got stopped by a police man in a dicey area outside the park when we got lost, which was not alot of fun.
Beautiful innocent faces.
Yes, so compelling!
Precious Cindy.
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