Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Send me to Africa

Tonight, S and I went to meet our church conference missionaries in Zimbabwe. Ishe Anesu is a program that provides meals, schooling, after school care and a host of other things to children orphaned due to the AIDS epidemic or abandoned due to different familial issues. Maria and Bill Humbane spoke to us tonight about the work they are doing there, partly thanks to the funds and resources our conference provides. It was heartbreaking to hear the circumstaces some of these children come from and how hard their lives are. I wasn't sure, honestly, if S would be able to hang throught the whole program, but she did. It was a two hour presentation. She soaked up every word, shocked and heartbroken hearing about the children with bellies swollen from parasites and worms gotten through scrounging through garbage to find food. It was a shocking picture. By the end of the program, she and I both wanted to go and visit this place that is doing such good in the midst of such sadness. Maria is going to set the kids up with pen pals they can talk to through email. They are so excited. I truly hope we can go one day. It would be an amazing experience...just as tonight was.


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