Smiles:

Oct. 31, 2007

Airmen deployed to support United Nations-African Union operations in Darfur took some time to visit an orphanage in Rwanda. The airmen, from Ramstein AB, Germany, and Charleston AFB, S.C., took coloring books, soccer balls, tennis shoes, and other donations, generating “smiles” from the children, reports Capt. Erin Dorrance.

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