Nchimuny is a tenth grade student I am sponsoring at a high school in the nearby town of Zimba. She is an orphan who is cared for by her aunt, a subsistence farmer with several children of her own. I received this letter from Nchimuny last week.
“Dear Sponsor,
I would like to thank our Lord our God. I am very thankful for your help. May the Lord be with you. …..
My sponsor, here at Zimba it is very cold. So I am asking if you have a spare bedspread or blanket. If you have one, please I am requesting you to do if possible. Even an old one, I can use it as long as it protects me from coldness.
School work is going well and everything is under God’s care.
Love and care.
Yours,
Nchimuny Mooya”
After reading the letter, my mother and I, choking back tears, agreed that we had to get this girl a blanket! We left the next morning with a bedspread and blanket, clothes, food, soap, lotion, sheets, and school supplies for Nchimuny. We found her at the school and she showed us her classrooms and a garden project she was working on before we gave her our gifts. She was very grateful and hurried off to her dorm room to make her bed for the night.
2 comments:
Did Nchimuny know that you were in Africa when she sent the letter? I'll bet she was very surprised when you showed up with a blanket!
As far as I know, she thought I was in the states! I didn't even think about that.... I hate to think how many nights she had been shivering in the cold without a blanket, it probably took at least four days for the letter to get to my parents.
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