When you meet someone who has adopted, raised, and loved over forty children who would have otherwise been lost to under-staffed and under-equipped medical facilities, your perspective on life changes. Your appreciation for the fact that such a person exists, that this person embodies all the altruistic values that you grew up seeing in movies and books, stops you in your tracks. You pause out of pleasant surprise, contemplate, and engage in an experience that will adjust your path in life toward the better. At least, that was the case when the Meiflower team met the Hammetts. And all we did was paint a few rooms for them. 

We decided to volunteer because we enjoy volunteering, but few such opportunities engage and build character as much as this project. We came away with an appreciation for simply having met people like the Hammetts, having played with their children, and having bonded with friends in something few people get to experience. That's why we're looking forward to coming back.

- Mei and Stephen