Anna Dombkins
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And if we stopped going everywhere after an incident, we'd have nowhere to go.
And so I was...
Obviously terrified, took 100 students to the hot springs and stood there with, you know, scared out of my wits.
And he said, just take the lifeguard.
He'll climb a tree and watch out for crocodiles.
And it was one of those moments that was both magic and terrifying.
There was just kids swinging from vines and landing in the hot springs.
And it was unbelievable and also terrifying.
And that was life all the time.
Did 100 students come back with you on the bus?
I was very relieved when 100 students boarded the bus and we did not see a crocodile that day.
Yeah, she sent us a photo of a set of twins who had come into the baby home and she knew that we were wanting to adopt a sibling group.
And so she sent us this photo and said, we have these twins.
They're going to be one soon.
And they have a tragic story where they were born premature.
The hospital said they wouldn't survive.
They wouldn't help them.
And so their parents left them with their grandparents and disappeared and never came back.
The grandparents are elderly and unwell and they can't raise them and so they're looking for a family for these twins.
Just the sight of these twins, we knew we've got to pursue this and so I jumped on a plane with Jemima actually, took her across the country to this baby home.