[guide.chat] In Reply To: I cried in church
- From: "James Liddell" <james.liddell2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Carol O'Connor" <missbossyboots33@xxxxxxxxx>, "guide chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:26:47 +0100
Hi, Carol;
Thanks for sharing this.
My presbytery ( a kind of group of local Church of Scotland congregations) is
twinned with the presbytery of Bandawe in Malawi, Africa. Over the last eight
years we've visited them, and paid for visits from them, in alternate years.
Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa. The average national
income for a family of 6 is about £230 per year. There is no national health
service, no national secondary education service, and certainly no care service
for those with disabilities. HIV/AIDS is rife, and the average life expectancy
is 47.
Yet the joy and faith of those whom I have met as we welcomed them over
here is incredible! They show so much commitment to their own situation that
it humbles me.
Our presbytery have sent container loads of medical equipment, school
equipment, clothing and toys over there every few months. We've just set up a
solar powered Internet room so that pupils and teachers can access the
Internet. We have three dispensaries attached to clinics, providing medical
help and drugs to mothers and children.
And we are supporting an orphanage and school for blind children, where they
can learn braille, crafts, agricultural and other skills which will help them
make their own way in a society where they would otherwise either starve or be
kept hidden away indoors as 'defective'.
I'm hoping, if my health holds up, to go with a group of folk from my
local presbytery next year, to see for myself what we can do to help, and
perhaps share some of my own story with them.
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol O'Connor - Email Address: missbossyboots33@xxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 30/09/2012 13:36
Sent To: guide chat - Email Address: guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [guide.chat] I cried in church
Good afternoon all
wow emotional today in church.
Watching video of all them poor children in very poor country in scruffy bad
conditions hospital oh my god
lady volunteer telling me everything at the side of me
I could tell people were filling up in church
ah awful
last year thousands of boxes went to children's in poor country
oh this video showed all sick children in ward all sitting up waiting for their
shoe box one Christmas and they all smiled wehn saw boxes on there beds given
to them ah you should hear hem all getting very excited over cheap toys it
meant the world to them little girls so fasinated with dollies never seen
dolly before one little girl cried and kept kissing the dolly ah isn't that sad
just hearing their voices made me break down.
ah just goes to show you know boxes getting to them now man in huge wagon
outside the hospital on video could see thousands of boxes in the back
lovely
I am filling my two boxes up
i am doing girl and carer is going to fill boy boxe up
i am getting packets of crayones packets of pencils and drawing pad tomorrow in
Town
putting toy cars in tooth brushes toothpast
gloves socks in too
got to have our boxes ready for 4th of November nice
Had sponge cake and cuppa
this afternoon having minced beef hot pot and vegetables jacket potato yummy
wow not joking freezing outside today windy wow
hope you all have nice afternoon
Love Carol xxxx
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