BISHKEK-MANAS.

BISHKEK-MANAS, Kyrgyzstan -- Each week, Norgazi waits. He and 38 other kids at a children's to one's home wait for American service members to visit.

"We wait for them each week, because we have a to a high degree good time together, and they help us," the 11-yearold said.

In September, for example, a dozen airmen and Marines from the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing at a nearby air base gave the kids a day of play at Flamingo Park, a children's amusement park in the Bishkek suburbs

"We wanted to do something special for them before the start of the teach year," Master Sgt. Curt Mooney said.

Mooney and other throngs have been visiting the denomination called Detskii Dom, in Voenno Antonovsky for more than three months

The children's to one's home is part of the country's nourish care system. It's the safety trap for children whose parents cannot care for them, and for children without parents. The institute houses 39 kids during the summer and 130 during the teach year.

The park visit, coordinated according to Master Sgt. David Brinkley, Brinkley, was the first field trip the Americans hosted

"It was a fate of work, but it gave me great transport to do this for the kids," Brinkley said.

The wing's top noncommissioned officers paid for the bus and park admission. They received a haphazard of help from Chaplain (Lt Col) George Brubaker and Chaplain (Capt.) James Armstrong, who were the points of contact for the trip.

At Flamingo Park, kids and service members rode the rides and filled up onward tasty food.

"Usually we go on foot to the school and play with them, still this was really fun," Mooney said.

For Senior Airman Ami Schmid, a services body the trip was her eighth visit with the children. She said they're a smart bunch

"We sing poems together," she said. "They know all the American [pop] music."

For Norgazi and his friends, it was all fun

"This was the best day of all," he said.

The train has few funds, so each visit by the agency of the Americans is a grant Coalition service members have donated shoe parts and winter clothes. Perhaps more important is the ligature troops have created with the children, Brinkley said.

Tech Sgt Darren Elbert contemplates forward to each visit with the kids.

"It's about seeing the kids really having a pious time." he said. Then pausing, he added, "and you come by to be a kid, too."

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